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[Adam Hill <sidepipeuk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 27 September 2010 12:48:22 Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mo, 27 Sep 2010, Adam Hill wrote:
> > 	Of course though, yours is a VGN-Z and not a VPC-Z :). The only way I
> > 
> > know to get rid of the NVidia from the device list of a VPC-Z is a hacked
> > bios
> 
> Well, that is a pain, but as long as nobody tries all the ACPI functions
> and sees what happens we will not be able to change that.

	I don't think that it is a pain at all. My belief is that it is just the 
way that the VPC hardware is set up ( I may be wrong on that, but I HAVE tried 
many ACPI calls to find one which makes one of the cards vanish completely, 
and drew a blank. )

	The fact is that with the call that I use in my hack of your module, the 
power consumption falls in a way that is consistent with disabling the NVidia 
card, even though it still appears on the PCI bus, further evidenced by the 
fact that hda-intel driver fails to wake up the HDMI audio chip from D3.... so 
as I said I don't think that is an issue at all.

Adam.



> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Norbert
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