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Linux is my fave Operating System, since I’m in collage until now, in the office, hahaha. From Knoppix, Ubuntu, Backtrack, OpenSUSE, Debian are running well enough in my (old) laptop, Acer Aspire 4520.

 

But when I was working in the office with the ‘borrowed’ laptop (thanks for beautiful gaming laptop ;) ). There is a serious issue! The heat that burns my left hand palm!!

 

Yup my (office) laptop temp is too high:

$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +90.0°C  

radeon-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:       +91.0°C  

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Physical id 0:  +90.0°C  (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0:         +90.0°C  (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1:         +90.0°C  (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

Whooo! 90.0°C !! the heat is generated by thermal ventilation. Owh ya, I almost forget, the laptop is HP Pavilion g4 1212tx with dual switchable VGA. Running well in Wind*ws, but not well in Linux, that’s HOT!! :) )

 

Enough with talk!!

Let’s messing around, quickly. I’m using acpi_call method, another method could be vga_switcheroo, i’m using acpi_call cause i’m not using ‘beautiful’ windows manager, just fluxbox/mate

 

1. Install dkms, git and dev package:

sudo apt-get install dkms git build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

 

2. Clone acpi_call repo by git and copy it to system

git clone http://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call.git
mkdir /usr/src/acpi_call-0.0.1
cp -rp acpi_call-0.0.1/* /usr/src/acpi_call-0.0.1

 

3. Create a new file dkms.conf

nano /usr/src/acpi_call-0.0.1/dkms.conf

paste this:

PACKAGE_NAME="acpi_call"                                         
PACKAGE_VERSION="0.0.1"                                                   
CLEAN="make clean"                                                        
BUILT_MODULE_NAME[0]="acpi_call"                                          
DEST_MODULE_NAME[0]="acpi_call"                                           
MAKE[0]="make IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1 KDIR=$kernel_source_dir PWD=$dkms_tree/acpi_call/0.0.1/build"
DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]="/kernel/drivers/acpi"                                   
AUTOINSTALL="yes"

 

4. Edit/replace Makefile

nano /usr/src/acpi_call-0.0.1/Makefile

paste this:

obj-m := acpi_call.o

KVERSION := $(shell uname -r)
KDIR := /lib/modules/$(KVERSION)/build
PWD := $(shell pwd)

default:
	$(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
clean:
	rm acpi_call.mod.o acpi_call.o acpi_call.ko
install:
	$(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) modules_install
load:
	-/sbin/rmmod acpi_call
	/sbin/insmod acpi_call.ko

 

5. Install module to dkms
add the module

sudo dkms add -m acpi_call -v 0.0.1

build it

sudo dkms build -m acpi_call -v 0.0.1

last, install it

sudo dkms install -m acpi_call -v 0.0.1

 

6. Load & check the module that installed

sudo modprobe acpi_call
modinfo acpi_call

 

7. Test it

sudo chmod +x /usr/src/acpi_call-0.0.1/test_off.sh
/usr/src/acpi_call-0.0.1/test_off.sh

 

The output is something like this

Trying \_SB.PCI0.P0P1.VGA._OFF: failed
Trying \_SB.PCI0.P0P2.VGA._OFF: failed
Trying \_SB_.PCI0.OVGA.ATPX: failed
Trying \_SB_.PCI0.OVGA.XTPX: failed
Trying \_SB.PCI0.P0P3.PEGP._OFF: works!

 

Check VGA states

lspci | grep VGA

 

The output is something like this

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Caicos [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] (rev ff)

*important part is my Radeon GPU state : (rev ff) that means the GPU is now disconnected
 

8. Make it autostart with system

Load acpi_call module at startup

sudo echo acpi_call >> /etc/modules

Create autostart script in /etc/init.d

sudo nano /etc/init.d/dis_off

*”dis_off” is the name of the script, name you want
 

paste this:

#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: script_name_you_want
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start daemon at boot time
# Description: Enable service provided by daemon.
### END INIT INFO

# /etc/init.d/script_name_you_want
#
# Carry out specific functions when asked to by the system

case "$1" in
start)

echo "Disabling Discrete VGA "
/usr/src/acpi_call-0.0.1/test_off.sh
;;
*)

echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/script_name_you_want {start}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0

 

Add symbolic links to be automatically executed by system

update-rc.d dis_off defaults

if we want to disable it from being autostart

update-rc.d dis_off remove

 

Thanks
 

Source:
http://garyservin.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/disabling-discrete-gpu-in-debian-gnulinux-wheezy/ with a little fix on script and *nix trick :)

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