On Wednesday 16 September 2009 14:28:47 Alexander Simon wrote:
good news, while i`m writing this, i'm using less than 9 Watts of energy :). This is a great piece of code for me and probably others! Thank you! That is indeed great news ! I'm jealous now, my U330 uses 12W when on switchable graphics :P
If you google a little bit, you'll find out why it works on Acer: Switchable Graphics was a cooperation between Intel and ATI. So, Acer AND Lenovo are in fact are using the same stuff. And i would really really wonder if Lenovo or Acer were developing such hardware techniques themselves. Yuk. The guys at Lenovo, when they announced the feature, actually said that they could not explain how to use it on Linux because their engineers put a lot of work in it and giving that work away won't be doable. It seems that most of the work is not Lenovo's ...
I would put a website for informing other Thinkpad and Acer users and make your code easier downloadable (the opensuse online archives don't keep attachments, i had to download the whole august mbox file). Would that be okay for you? It is perfectly fine for me.
Someone from the Ubuntu guys also already found your entry: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7944950 Cool :)
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