https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645296 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645296#c1 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |sndirsch@novell.com InfoProvider| |nikom@mkudro.com --- Comment #1 from Stefan Dirsch 2010-10-11 10:38:23 UTC --- Isn't there a switch in your laptop's BIOS setup to disable either NVIDIA or Intel graphics? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645296 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645296#c3 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|nikom@mkudro.com | --- Comment #3 from Stefan Dirsch 2010-10-11 12:53:51 UTC --- That's bad. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645296 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645296#c5 --- Comment #5 from Niko Maziachvili 2010-10-13 07:23:34 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4)

I don't see how you can switch off the NVIDIA GPU on linux.

Same way, i guess, as Sony does it under windows - software. But that is up to suse devs to decide if they want to spent time on that. I see more and more high-end laptops adapting this "dual graphics" setup. Maybe it is interesting to dive in to this problem. Hopefully someone does, i wish i had skills to reverse engineer Sonys method. Another way would be much harder way - pursuing Sony to open up bios!! But that's not gonna happen isn't it :(. Then it would be just bios tweak, but noooo Sony has 10^6 reasons to do things the way they do it. And i'm sure they can give a nice explanation to why in the name of ...whoever.. we can't have this option available? Really, why?

Non-working S3 suspend + resume with intel graphics looks indeed like a kernel issue.

It does look like it, but still i think that it is just a driver issue. i915 driver is to general. I think we need little bit more "recent" driver for intel core i7 and above GPUs. Well considering that i915 is provided by kernel it still makes it kernel issue, but.... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645296 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645296#c7 Pavan Lanka changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |pavibhai@gmail.com --- Comment #7 from Pavan Lanka 2011-05-29 18:47:47 UTC --- I have the same sony vaio Z series laptop. Of all the problems listed I have the following updates: 1 - Power drain - This can be overcome by turning the nvidia graphics card off, from the following link http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/2010/07/using-acpicall-module-to-s... 2 - Suspend seems to work for me after the upgrade to the latest kernel maybe something to try out. 3 - Cannot use the nvidia graphics card unless I do static switching by using an older kernel. Having said all of the above, I would prefer that we get with better integration with openSuse and support this request. Regards, Pavan (In reply to comment #0)

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Hi dev team,

I have Sony Vaio VPCZ1 laptop with, what sony calls, dynamic hybrid graphics system. Basicly it is a laptop with two graphical cards: 1. Intel Corporation Core Processor (i7) Integrated Graphics Controller 2. nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 330M]

Having two graphic cards causes several problems: 1. Both cards are powered on thus causing drastic shortening of battery life. Instead of promised by Sony 6.5 hours i barely getting 1.5 hours (yes, manufacturers promise about battery life never comes true, but difference in my case seems little to excessive). 2. Suspend to ram is broken, of course. From my previous experience i knew that suspend worked with nvidia drivers. I have tryed to blacklist i915 driver which loads as default and installing nvidia driver, but somehow nvidia card never gets activated. Although i had drivers installed intel graphical unit was still used by system (even when i had i915 blacklisted).

My hardware specs: - CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz - GPU Intel Corporation Core Processor (i7) Integrated Graphics Controller nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 330M] - Memory 8G - Screen size 13.1" with 1920x1080 rezolution

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce: 1. standard install 11.3 on Sony Vaio VPCZ1 (VPCZ12C5E) 2. 3. Actual Results: 1. Very bad battery life 2. Suspend not working 3. Only Intel GPU can be used (wouldn't mind at all if suspend would work and other GPU would not be activated at all - battery life issue) 4. Touchpad working only afte i load (manually) i8042.nopnp module. 5. Desktop effect working very well (surprisingly)

Expected Results: At least suspend. Not having this kind of brakes all advantages having this small and very light laptop. And improved battery life.

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