Bug#629418: (no subject)

Carl Michal michal at physics.ubc.ca
Thu Nov 3 06:14:46 UTC 2011


> I have set up nvidia's PowerMizer to use different profiles on mains and 
> battery power as documented at 
> http://tutanhamon.com.a/technovodstvo/NVIDIA-UNIX-driver/ , however 
> according to nvidia-settings the laptop is always on mains power, even 
> when it's actually running off the battery:

>> $ nvidia-settings -q GPUPowerSource -t
>> 0

> I noticed that OpenSUSE running on the same laptop detects the power 
> source correctly, so might this have something to do withpackaging? 
> Looks like I have 260.19.44 installed on openSUSE and 270.41.19 on this debian 
> system.

If this is still a problem, check that acpid is running!  Look in 
Xorg.0.log - the driver reports whether it was able to connect to acpid 
successfully or not.  That was my problem...

Carl






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