Bug#629418: nvidia-glx: PowerMizer doesn't detect change in power source

[Andreas Beckmann]

Hi Jan,

On 2011-11-12 01:37, Jan-Michael Heller wrote:
> luckily i got to equal machines here, one with Ubuntu Natty (11.04) and
> one with Debian squeeze, both with the same Quadro Chipset.
> On Natty with linux 2.6.38.12.27 and the precompiled nvidia 270.1406
> this problem does not occur.
> On squeeze I first ran the newest 280.5-Driver and now downgraded to
> 270.1406, but the problem is still the same as described before. Maybe
> this has something to do with a change in the ACPI-Interface and Nvidia
> not supporting it the old way?
> I am going to try to downgrade even more, if I have the time
> (respectively the battery power left ;)

Did you get any results from these tests?
Did you try a more recent driver version (290.10 in testing, 295.20 in
unstable) - does it change anything?
Did you try upgrading kernel, acpi, ...?

Andreas