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    Re: Experiments in refit shell to enable 9400M on MBP 5,1

    Thanks metatechbe.

    Yes, I did kill v86d and waited for a while. Even when leaving the computer alone (doing nothing), the temperature never goes under 44º. Using the computer in normal browsing (NYtimes, flash blocked) makes the temperature go up to about 50-52º.

    Running gpupwr using sudo works fine but, again, the temperature is stable in ~52º during normal use.

    Could you post your xorg.conf and grub.cfg files to see if I got something wrong?

    And a last thing, there is any way to control the screen brightness?

    Thanks a lot for the help.

    Quote Originally Posted by metatechbe View Post
    After 10-20 minutes after boot, the temperature should be around 40-42 degrees Celsius. Did you kill the v86d process and waited long enough for the machine to stabilize its temperature ?



    You need to run the gpupwr command with "sudo"

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    Re: Experiments in refit shell to enable 9400M on MBP 5,1

    Quote Originally Posted by emrys View Post
    Could you post your xorg.conf and grub.cfg files to see if I got something wrong?

    And a last thing, there is any way to control the screen brightness?
    Here are the custom settings I define :
    - "On demand" governor for each CPU core (thanks to CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor applet from GNOME) : gain of 3 degrees
    Code:
    echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
    echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor
    - Disable Bluetooth : gain of 5 degrees
    Code:
    rfkill block 0
    - The following "PowerMizer"/"coolbits" options in xorg.conf : : gain of 2 degrees
    Code:
    Section "Device"
        Identifier     "Device9400M"
        Driver         "nvidia"
        VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
        BoardName      "NVIDIA 9400M"
    Option     "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerEnable=0x1; PerfLevelSrc=0x2222; PowerMizerDefault=0x3; PowerMizerDefaultAC=0x3"
    Option "coolbits" "1"
    BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
    EndSection
    In total about 10 degrees colder ! QED

    Screen brightness does not work but I did not try.
    Last edited by metatechbe; March 14th, 2011 at 09:55 PM. Reason: added command line

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    Re: Experiments in refit shell to enable 9400M on MBP 5,1

    Quote Originally Posted by emrys View Post
    Yes, I did kill v86d and waited for a while.
    Apologies for the indirectly relevant question: why is v86d eating up the CPUs?

    I've tried to "fix" the plymouth boot splash yesterday[*] by changing some parameters in /etc/default/grub including the use of uvesafb. This required v86d which ate up the CPUs and caused the fans to run at full speed. In the past I've done the same thing without any obvious v86d-problem.

    Thanks, Nikos

    [*] post on idyllictux blog

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    Smile Re: Experiments in refit shell to enable 9400M on MBP 5,1

    Quote Originally Posted by metatechbe View Post
    The step-by-step is here :
    http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook

    metatech
    Successfully booted via EFI on MBP 5,1 (last week -- sorry for not taking the time to report this earlier)
    I also (as emrys post 41) see not less than 52 degrees. Did not try all suggestions at post 42.

    Cheers, Nikos

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    Re: Experiments in refit shell to enable 9400M on MBP 5,1

    Quote Originally Posted by metatechbe View Post
    The step-by-step is here :
    http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook

    metatech
    I've been anxious to try this out on my Macbook Pro, but it looks like the link to the guide doesn't work anymore.

    Do you know where I can find the instructions I need to follow?

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    Re: Experiments in refit shell to enable 9400M on MBP 5,1

    Quote Originally Posted by Teefs View Post
    I've been anxious to try this out on my Macbook Pro, but it looks like the link to the guide doesn't work anymore.

    Do you know where I can find the instructions I need to follow?
    New location is here :
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting

    metatech

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    Re: Experiments in refit shell to enable 9400M on MBP 5,1

    hi metatech,

    thanks for the detailed community documentation post. really nice work!
    hopefully, i can contribute some more information soon. been a while since i played with EFI, currently i'm running ubuntu in BIOS mode on my MBP5,1 (due to heavy load at work...).

    anyway, way to go!


    cheers,

    thomas

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    Re: Experiments in refit shell to enable 9400M on MBP 5,1

    Any news regarding a simplified (aka PPA or similar) way to enable 9400M in Oneiric?

    The solid >62º I am getting in my MBP5,3 are killing me (and the battery).

    Also, the affected people can mark this bug as affecting them in: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...rs/+bug/592086

    Cheers.

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    Re: Experiments in refit shell to enable 9400M on MBP 5,1

    Just found out about Ironhide... but is seems there is no support for Macbook Pro 5,3 or similar... https://launchpad.net/~mj-casalogic/+archive/ironhide/

    Anyone has been successful using Ironhide, Bumblebee or similar?
    Last edited by emrys; November 22nd, 2011 at 12:42 PM.

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    Re: Experiments in refit shell to enable 9400M on MBP 5,1

    Any news for 12.04?

    This thing is a battery killer!

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