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@acelan: I've replied to you via mail, will resend the mail again.

Actually there is no sense to switch to ATI card since a) radeon/radeonhd kernel/xorg drivers are not supporting 5xxx series yet, b) fglrx does not support hybrid graphic yet. But for me switching...

By "not an issue" I mean there is no harm in this message except time consuming, it will flood your console with this crap for about a minute (depends on speed of tty) and then continue.
Try...

Ah, yes, I've mentioned that issue to switcheroo maillist
Is it something like this?


[ 3430.695445] [drm:atom_op_jump] *ERROR* atombios stuck in loop for more than 1sec aborting
[ 3430.697491]...

@tawmas: yes, it works fine for me, haven't noticed any issue with reboot or shutdown. What is the problem? Does it hang or panic? Maybe try to remove radeon driver before shutdown, or fglrx if you...

Here are packed deb files - just install with dpkg -i <file.deb> and it should work. I guess
* linux-headers-2.6.34-aspire-4820tg_1_amd64.deb
* linux-image-2.6.34-aspire-4820tg_1_amd64.deb
*...

patch for 2.6.34


--- drivers/acpi/ec.c.orig 2010-05-16 23:17:36.000000000 +0200
+++ drivers/acpi/ec.c 2010-07-07 08:19:51.222523203 +0200
@@ -854,6 +854,14 @@
{
struct acpi_ec *ec = NULL;...

And here is battery drain with default settings (ATI on, intel active)


ruff@BOX:/usr/src/linux-2.6.34$ acpitool -B
Battery #1 : present
Remaining capacity : 8236 mAh, 98.28%,...

Yes, confirming it is working for 2.6.34 (manually applied due to different line numbers)
detecting AC state (plugging off ac cord)


ruff@BOX:~$ acpitool -a
AC adapter : on-line ...

wow, my BT started to work again, now only under linux. under win still sees nothing. It drives me crazy %)
Now I can proceed with script to replace radeon drivers with catalyst after switching to...

Also after loading radeon driver i see switch is enabled


root@BOX:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
0:+:Pwr:0000:00:02.0
1: :Pwr:0000:01:00.0
root@BOX:~#

switch showing...

So I've downloaded and built vanilla 2.6.34 with switcheroo enabled - now i'm able to boot normally into switchable mode %) Xorg is not working yet since I haven't rebuilt fglrx under new kernel yet,...

Check with iwconfig if it is recognized by OS. If you have it there - check what Tx-power is showing, if Off - press Fn+F3 (Tx-Power should change in several seconds to some dBm) and start setting up...

This morning my Win7 hanged during reboot so I've power-cycled into linux. And guess what - bluetooth is working and toggling by Fn just the same way as in win. I wonder why haven't I tryed it...

So far I've managed to disassemble DSDT under windows with MS ASL and iASL(win version) - both produced sources with errors which coukd not be compiled back


c:\lin>asl dsdt.ASL
Microsoft ACPI...

As for bluetooth - seems here it is
root@BOX:~# rfkill list
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
...

Yes, I mean integrated BT BCM92046 into 4820TG-436G64Mn. Under windows pressing Fn+F3 switches wireless adapters in following order: WiFi on, WiFi + BT on, WiFi + BT off. I.e. you can have either...

Hi marm0tte, thanks for a nice follow-up. I have a question however in view of


It does enable it actually, but it doesn't send any kind of acpi/hal/udev/dbus notification/event so you need to...

You can check http://asusm51ta-with-linux.blogspot.com/ for switchable graphic solution example.
Kernel >=2.6.34 (containing switcheroo) is available via ppa - f.i. ...