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[Sebastian Daehne <daehne@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys,
> I have now, and it does work.  I wonder how.
>
> To recap, with Arch I just installed the LTS (i.e. older) version of
> the kernel, added it to GRUB, then rebooted into it; made sure the
> switch was set appropriately (Stamina in my case) even though none of
> the card switch lights was lit; then rebooted from the console (X
> didn't come up with the older kernel) and picked the "modern" kernel
> with KMS-based Intel video driver instead.
>
> When it came up, the nVidia card was absent from lspci and power
> consumption at idle (but with all wireless etc switched on) was down
> to about 16 watts from 25 or 26 previously.
>
>    

Currently I'm just experiencing the same problems Xaviar did (using 
grub-legacy boots
the system but the console-font is somewhat green and x looks like weird)

I've tried using kernel 2.6.34-rc5 with Chris's kernel-config but no 
luck so far.
Now I've just installed archlinux (it was debian before) using the 
2010-04 installer, but
same problem as before.

Xaviar: how exactly did you manage to get rid of the green console font 
and could you please
send me your kernel-config?

regards

Sebastian