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Re: battery life (disable nvidia card)

 

On Sa, 25 Sep 2010, K. Posern wrote:
> 	How can I make sure that the CD drive is turned off?

No way till now. I tried to hack the ACPI functions and see if I can
find out how to turn on/off the CD, but didn't manage.

If anyone has a good idea please let us know.

> 	How can I make sure that the fingerprint reader is turned off?

Unload USB ;-) Or turn on usb auto suspend in the kernel config.

Best wishes

Norbert
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