On 8 February 2011 00:23, Michal Kottman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 22:21 +0000, Dawid Lorenz wrote: > > Basically, ./test_off.sh script "works!" on different part of the test > > in my case but I'm not sure what does that mean, really. Could someone > > explain what these acronyms (ie. \_SB.PCI0.P0P1.PEGP._OFF) exactly > > mean? > > They are the ACPI method names, that are used on various Optimus-enabled > systems to turn off the GPU. Because there is no standardized name for > this (every vendor uses his own ACPI methods, some even cannot be turned > of using ACPI), we have to to call every single method name collected on > this mailing list, until one available on the system is found. > > The 'works!' does not necessarily mean that the battery rate will be > lower - just that the method was found, and calling it resulted in no > error, therefore it "works". It should probably deserve a better name > and reporting, but at the time I wrote it, it was used just for testing, > hence the name: "test_off.sh" :) Thank you for explaining this. :) -- Dawid 'evad' Lorenz * http://dawid.lorenz.co null:// I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere
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