On Thursday 27 September 2012 18:15:46 Simon McNair wrote: > Couldn't get > > $ for keyword in baseboard-manufacturer baseboard-product-name > baseboard-version system-manufacturer system-product-name > system-version bios-vendor bios-version bios-release-date; do > printf "%-22s: " "$keyword"; > sudo dmidecode -s "$keyword"; > done > > to work, I pasted it in to terminal to no avail and tried it in a > shell file to no avail. I also have a launchpad account but could see > no way to email (with attachment's) from it. You need to install the "dmidecode" package.
> Copyright (C) 2011 The Bumblebee Project > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to > change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted > by law. > > I found that everytime I turned the laptop on, the display would die. > acpi=off and/or acpi_backlight=vendor seem to fix it but I have no > idea if they are ideal, I'm of the personal opinion that > acpi_backlight seems to be the least impact to power management etc. acpi=off results in a higher power usage because it disables power management completely and seems to break nvidia (optirun) (I think you can't suspend with it either). acpi_backlight should be the way to go. Regards, Peter -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~bumblebee Post to : bumblebee@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~bumblebee More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp