Re: Issuing ACPI call methods to disable NVIDIA Optimus card

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 01:10:34PM +0200, Bartek Krawczyk wrote:
> On one of freebsd mailing lists I got some info about
> http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/acpi_call/ which seems to be what I
> need. I'll look into it and if it works maybe I'll try to port it to
> NetBSD when I have some time. But feel free to port it :)

As I said previously, it takes two minutes to write a module that calls
arbitrary AML functions. If you tell me the methods that needs to be called,
I can do it for you.

Otherwise -- while I have nothing against someone porting the above to pkgsrc
-- I am still not convinced that such a tool is required. Just like writing
random stuff to hardware registers from userspace is not a good idea.

- Jukka.