The battery information is usually somewhere in your /proc/ directory: find /proc/ -iname "bat*" 2>/dev/null
gives me: /proc/acpi/battery /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0 cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state present: yes capacity state: ok charging state: discharging present rate: 24420 mW remaining capacity: 57150 mWh present voltage: 15499 mV On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Wepmaschda <[email protected]> wrote: > Yipeee! It's working! > > The single-space was the problem (terminal attached). > > It seems that it gave me some extra battery time although I recently > found out, that my battery is broken and this is the main reason for > low battery time. ;-) > > Can I somehow find out how much power (Watt) the laptop currently uses? > > > Anyway - Thanks for the help and the good work! Keep it going - I look > forward to see the new bumblebee release and maybe I will try out > using the nvidia card in linux. ;-) > > > > 2012/1/7 Lekensteyn <[email protected]>: >> In addition, make sure that *no* driver is loaded before turning the card >> off. Check it with >> lspci -vmk -d10de: >> If a driver is loaded, there is a "Driver: ..." line. >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Lekensteyn <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Huh, that was not what I expected. Could you re-run the commands, but then >>> add sudo cat /proc/acpi/call after each sudo tee /proc/acpi/call command? >>> Please >>> attach dmesg as well and cat /proc/cmdline >>> >>> Try using one space as separator as well. When I tried multiple spaces >>> between >>> _DSM and the arguments, I got an "Method call failed: Error: AE_SUPPORT" >>> error. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Lekensteyn >>> >>> >>> 2012/1/7 Wepmaschda <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> Since it seems that the test wasn't successful, I attached the whole >>>> terminal output. >>>> >>>> I installed the bumblebee-git and apci_call-git AUR packages, added me >>>> to group bumblebee, restarted the system and tried the commands you >>>> told me. >>>> >>>> Is my system more complicated? ;-) >>>> >>>> 2012/1/5 Lekensteyn <[email protected]>: >>>> > I found the calls in the acpidump and could see on beforehand that it >>>> > does >>>> > not work for >>>> > you since these kind of calls require additional treatment, namely >>>> > saving >>>> > and restoring >>>> > the PCI configuration space. >>>> > >>>> > Please confirm (with PM disabled, but keep cardo{n,ff} scripts) that >>>> > the >>>> > following sequence >>>> > does work (after making sure that you no acpi calls have been performed >>>> > this >>>> > session, i.e. >>>> > by rebooting) >>>> > >>>> > # should not show FF FF FF ... >>>> > xxd -c4 /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0 >>>> > >>>> > cat /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0 > saved.txt >>>> > sudo tee /proc/acpi/call < /etc/bumblebee/cardoff >>>> > >>>> > # should show FF FF FF ... >>>> > xxd -c4 /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0 >>>> > sudo tee /proc/acpi/call < /etc/bumblebee/cardon >>>> > >>>> > # should not show FF FF FF ... >>>> > xxd -c4 /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0 >>>> > sudo tee /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0 < saved.txt >>>> > optirun glxgears >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Please attach the output of the above commands. >>>> > >>>> > Regards, >>>> > Lekensteyn >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Wepmaschda <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> 2012/1/4 Lekensteyn <[email protected]>: >>>> >> > Those ON and OFF lines are code that can be inserted in >>>> >> > /etc/bumblebee/cardon >>>> >> > and /etc/bumblebee/cardoff which needs Bumblebee. See >>>> >> > https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/ACPI-Removed for >>>> >> > how >>>> >> > to >>>> >> > use those calls. Note that the card has to be on before suspending >>>> >> > or >>>> >> > the >>>> >> > card >>>> >> > won't be useable until the PCI configuration space is reinitialized. >>>> >> > Sorry >>>> >> > for the >>>> >> > technical details, I just try to be complete. >>>> >> >>>> >> I'm not sure if I already understand it completely. ;-) >>>> >> Did you find those calls out from the acpidump? Should they already >>>> >> solve the problem? >>>> >> >>>> >> I created the files cardon and cardoff with the one-lines but "sudo >>>> >> make load" still doesn't work with the same error. >>>> >> >>>> >> Also I started Windows7 and used the nvidia card before I booted back >>>> >> into archlinux before I tested this. So the card should have been >>>> >> "on". >>>> >> >>>> >> Should it already work or can I help with some more >>>> >> information/testing? >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> > I'll see if there is an automated way to detect this kind of methods >>>> >> > and >>>> >> > integrate >>>> >> > it in bbswitch. >>>> >> >>>> >> If I can help with my hardware, just tell me. >>>> > >>>> > >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
