Asus Eee PC 1015PN - graphic cards: Optimus and ION

[mtron]

it seems you have multiple versions of the kernel modules installed. Remove them:

sudo dkms remove acpicall/0.1 --all
sudo dkms remove acpi-call/240611 --all
dkms status

check that all acpi*call modules are removed. Now change to the /usr/src folder and run:

sudo dkms add -m acpi-call -v 240611 --all
sudo dkms autoinstall -m acpi-call -v 240611

After this command you should get a message that the dkms install completed and it should work.

[Isma-ct]

it seems you have multiple versions of the kernel modules installed. Remove them:

sudo dkms remove acpicall/0.1 --all
sudo dkms remove acpi-call/240611 --all
dkms status

check that all acpi*call modules are removed. Now change to the /usr/src folder and run:

sudo dkms add -m acpi-call -v 240611 --all
sudo dkms autoinstall -m acpi-call -v 240611

After this command you should get a message that the dkms install completed and it should work.

Hello Mtron!

I followed your instructions and all seamed to work until I rebooted, that it still gets stuck in the splash screen.

That's the output, all seems okay:

root@ee:~# dkms status
acpi-call, 240611, 3.0.0-12-generic, i686: installed
nvidia-current, 285.05.09, 3.0.0-12-generic, i686: installed

root@ee:~# apt-get install eee1015pn-acpitools 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
  eee1015pn-acpitools
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/21,3 kB of archives.
After this operation, 81,9 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package eee1015pn-acpitools.
(Reading database ... 241116 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking eee1015pn-acpitools (from .../eee1015pn-acpitools_0.6.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Setting up eee1015pn-acpitools (0.6.3-0ubuntu1) ...
cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so': No such file or directory
options nouveau modeset=0
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic

root@ee:~# display-settings fix
INFO: arch is i386
INFO: acpi_call Kernel module is available
INFO: Nothing to do. libglx.so.nvidia is up-to-date
INFO: Configuring System for intel
INFO: triggering mesa ldconfig...
INFO: prepare mesa glx lib...
INFO: preparing xorg configuration...
INFO: System configuration for Intel completed

What could be happening?
Thank you very much!

[mtron]

please post the output of the following commands

lspci
lsmod | grep video
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep -i driver
readlink /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
sudo display-settings status
dmesg | grep -i acpi_call

[bero74]

I feel really silly ... can't find out a way to fetch all the output from display-settings fix without X.
Redirecting with > output.txt doesn't fetch all the output ...

[mtron]

You can enable logging to file by editing the display-settigns script

sudo gedit /usr/bin/display-settings

in the settings section on top of the file remove the # from the exec line:

## uncomment next line to enable logging to file instead of sdout
exec >> $logfile 2>&1

now display-settings will output debug info to /var/log/acpi-call.log. To read it use e.g. 'cat /var/log/acpi-call.log'

[bero74]

OK! Finaly got it to work!

First I had to reinstall xserver-xorg-core after installing nvidia-current. Otherwice I ended up without the intel libglx. (Not quite verified.)

Then I installed eee1015pn-acpitools. No errors this time.
Run sudo display-settings reboot-intel.

After the reboot I still ended up with only the splashscreen. No login manager ... Tried to run start lightdm and stop lightdm with no succes. Tried sudo lightdm and voilà lightdm fired up.

Got tired of fiddling with lightdm and selected gdm as default login manager with sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm. Rebooted and everything is working since.

[mtron]

bero, did you upgrade from natty?

i never experienced any of this when trying a fresh oneiric install. But great you got it to work!

[bero74]

Yes, I did an upgrade. Some time maby I will try doing a clean install ...

[mtron]

Hello!

Thanks to the patch submitted by Gerald Schnabel the gui scripts now support LXDE (eee1015pn-acpitools 0.6.6 onwards).

So we cover now most of the available Desktop Enviroments in ubuntu (unity/unity-2d, gnome-classic/gnome-shell, kde, xfe and lxde).

The update is rolled out via the eee1015pn-acpitools ppa so you should receive it via the regular system updates.

For potential contributors:

i uploaded the scripts to a bzr branch, so if you found a bug or want to extend the code get the sources via

bzr branch lp:~mtron/+junk/eee1015pn-acpitools

If you want to contribute (please do ) make your changes in the source tree and run

bzr diff >> mypatch.diff

forward the patch to me and please include a line of text what your patch does.

cheers!

[deltha]

hello everybody, and thanks for all the support you're giving =)
I followed mtron's guide, but it seems I'm not able to use the HDMI out: when I switch to nvidia graphic card my tv is shown on the nvidia settings panel, but I get nothing on the display, and in the display tab (under system settings) it just recognize my netbook display.
Do you have any clue?
Thanks in advance, and sorry if the answer has already been given (I tried to find it but I couldn't).

EDIT: I'm using ubuntu 11.10 BTW...