Comment 119 for bug 752542

My Vostro 3500

I've been playing with acpi_call and found a method that can turn OFF the discrete card ("\_SB.PCI0.P0P1.PEGP._OFF") . After using the same method to turn it ON ("\_SB.PCI0.P0P1.PEGP._ON") won't let me insert any kernel module with this error:

# modprobe nvidia
FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.38-ARCH/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko): No such device

I'm able to use the card via Bumblebee. Is acpi_call still active?

# dmidecode -s system-product-name && sudo dmidecode -s system-version
Vostro 3500
A10

$ lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/' | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 18) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 310M] [10de:0a75] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Thanks and keep up the effort