Disable nvidia card in DSDT

[lucasR]

i got a Lg a550, with a i5-3210m and an Gt 640m, i need to disable the Gt 640m so i can save battery, i extracted the ssdt and i found the OFF method in SSDT4 but i can't find any information on where to put the OFF method, so i am asking for help to do this.

 

i really hope that anyone can help me.

thanks.

 

NVD.zip

[RehabMan]

i got a Lg a550, with a i5-3210m and an Gt 640m, i need to disable the Gt 640m so i can save battery, i extracted the ssdt and i found the OFF method in SSDT4 but i can't find any information on where to put the OFF method, so i am asking for help to do this.

 

i really hope that anyone can help me.

thanks.

 

NVD.zip

What I would do:

 

make sure SSDT4.aml is loading: You are probably using DropSSDT=Yes, so it is not currently in ACPI namespace. Instead eliminate just the CPU p/c state related tables. And include the raw binary (no need to recompile) SSDTs, as SSDT-1.aml, SSDT-2.aml, etc.

 

call the method from _SB.PCI0._INI: You should be able to do it like this:

External(\_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._OFF, MethodObj)
if (CondRefOf(\_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._OFF)) { \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._OFF() }

So, your _INI would start out like:

        Method (_INI, 0, NotSerialized)
        {
            External(\_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._OFF, MethodObj)
            if (CondRefOf(\_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._OFF)) { \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._OFF() }
            Store (0x07D0, OSYS)
            If (CondRefOf (\_OSI, Local0))
            {
                If (_OSI ("Windows 2001"))     
...

In your case, SSDT1, SSDT2, SSDT3 are all not necessary, so you should DropSSDT=Yes and then include SSDT4.AML as SSDT-1.AML (assuming SSDT.AML) has your normal CPU p/c states (eg. from Pike's script). The bootloader will load DSDT.AML, SSDT.AML, and SSDT-1.AML (contents same as SSDT4.AML). Recompiling SSDT4 is complicated, so I recommend you don't bother. Instead just include the binary as extracted from Linux.

 

Note: I have no idea if that will work, as I don't buy laptops with discrete cards, but if I did have your situation, that's what I would try.

[vandebergz]

Sorry to bump.

 

From your reply, can I say that I only need to put SSDT-11.aml(that contains NVIDIA in my case) to Clover ACPI/patched/ and add those lines to _SB.PCI0._INI, right?