Not on mine. ;-) > find /proc/ -iname "bat*" 2>/dev/null
returns nothing and /proc/acpi/ only contains button, call and wakeup. 2012/1/7 Albert Vilella <[email protected]>: > 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
