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[Alex Safiullin <a.safiullin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've found on the web device IDs for newer Nvidia cards and included them
into sources of nvclock. Now it works (with some weird messages, although):

alex@alex-VPCZ133GM:~/temp/nvclock0.8b4/src$ ./nvclock -i
Unhandled init script entry with id '�' at 6fab
Unhandled init script entry with id '�' at 6fab
-- General info --
Card: GT216 [GeForce GT 330M]
Architecture: GA5 A2
PCI id: 0xa2b
GPU clock: -8589935.000 MHz
Bustype: PCI-Express

-- Shader info --
Clock: -8589935.000 MHz
Stream units: 48 (00000011b)
ROP units: 8 (00000011b)
-- Memory info --
Amount: 1024 MB
Type: 128 bit DDR3
Clock: -8589935.000 MHz

-- PCI-Express info --
Current Rate: 16X
Maximum rate: 16X

-- Smartdimmer info --
Backlight level: 40%

-- VideoBios information --
Version: 70.16.67.00.04
Signon message: GT216 E696 SKU 0189 N11P-LP2 VGA BIOS
VID mask: 14
Voltage level 0: 0.01V, VID: 0
Voltage level 1: 0.00V, VID: ff
Voltage level 2: 0.00V, VID: 0

alex@alex-VPCZ133GM:~/temp/nvclock0.8b4/src$ ./nvclock -S 40
Unhandled init script entry with id '�' at 6fab
Unhandled init script entry with id '�' at 6fab
Changing Smartdimmer level from 70% to 40%
New Smartdimmer level: 40%





BUT, brightness level is NOT affected by that command. Probably brightness
controls are really powered off in Speed mode :(

Best regards,
Alex

2011/8/21 Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>

> Hi,
>
> I heard now from several people that nvclock is not working.
> Probably the linux driver doe s not support it by now, no idea.
> Here I can assure you taht it works:
> $ glxinfo
> ...
> direct rendering: Yes
> server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
> ...
> OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
> OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 9300M GS/PCI/SSE2
> OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 280.13
> ...
> $ nvclock -i
> -- General info --
> Card:           nVidia Geforce 9300M GS
> Architecture:   G98 A2
> PCI id:         0x6e5
> GPU clock:      182.248 MHz
> Bustype:        PCI-Express
> ...
> -- Smartdimmer info --
> Backlight level: 40%
>
> -- Sensor info --
> Sensor: GPU Internal Sensor
> GPU temperature: 48C
>
> -- VideoBios information --
> Version: 62.98.3e.00.18
> Signon message: Sony mobile A NB9M-GS VGA BIOS
> ...
> $ nvclock -S -30
> Changing Smartdimmer level from 70% to 40%
> New Smartdimmer level: 40%
> $
>
> That is with
>        NVClock v0.8 (Beta4)
>
> So if you have a similar card, it should work. The rest is only
> hooking the acpi keys to the nvclock calls.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
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