Update REAMDE.md

Closes GH-28
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Bruno Pagani 12 years ago
parent f982a09546
commit e21cdd7b3f

@ -22,6 +22,16 @@ detect the correct handle preceding _DSM and has some built-in safeguards:
disabled again if that was the case before suspending. Hibernation should disabled again if that was the case before suspending. Hibernation should
work, but it not tested. work, but it not tested.
Precautionary measure :
- On some machines, turning off the card is permanent and the card does not
reappear on subsequents reboots, which can result into the screen staying
black all the time, including the BIOS screen.
If it occurs, first try to shutdown, unplug power cord, remove battery, wait
30s, then put everything back in and boot. If it's not solved, then the
solution is to reset the BIOS to factory settings. Before executing bbswitch
for the first time, it is therefore recommended to take note of the full key
sequence in the BIOS to do a reset.
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@ -110,6 +120,17 @@ You have to update your initial ramdisk (initrd) for the changes propagate to
the boot process. On Debian and Ubuntu, this can performed by running the boot process. On Debian and Ubuntu, this can performed by running
`update-initramfs -u` as root. `update-initramfs -u` as root.
### Enable card on shutdown
Some machines do not like the card being disabled at shutdown.
Add the next initscript (`/etc/init/bbswitch.conf`) :
description "Save power by disabling nvidia on Optimus"
author "Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@gmail.com>"
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]
pre-start exec /sbin/modprobe bbswitch load_state=0 unload_state=1
pre-stop exec /sbin/rmmod bbswitch
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