On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 10:14 +0000, Nuno Lourenco wrote: > Hi David, > > It is simple as this. You don't.... Until now, as far I know, there is > no way to use the Nvidia GPU on 1215n (or any other similar Optimus > platform) on anything else but Windows 7. > > Other thing, as far as I noticed you are reading badly > the /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state, if you see it well, you are > "charging" the laptop, the increase of mA that you see is actually the > "charging rate", if it increased that means that is working Ok :) > Because it is waisting less energy so it is able to charge quicker, > got it? :)
Perhaps it should be stated somewhere more obviously (maybe in big letters? :) that Optimus doesn't work. Maybe something like this: "Optimus does not work on Linux (yet). Meanwhile, you can save the battery by using acpi_call to turn your (unused) discrete GPU off." _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
