From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757212AbZILDOX (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:14:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756806AbZILDOX (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:14:23 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f172.google.com ([209.85.221.172]:40454 "EHLO mail-qy0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755407AbZILDOW (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:14:22 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Ras15+DMxvkIBBpXoy4jn9HgqD4Su9qVK9D4NSkQuTH8U5o8sp5BDE06Y/ljmC8PM9 FTQhPsP1cGOelVDUZMTVsfG9TAzbgIlBJx5o7BoWgZyXf61WO5dyho6s3ueV19n9hR9f JAy4gMfujlExVYx4Ipj+45WToTEiUqY17Shq8= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090911215958.GA30989@srcf.ucam.org> References: <84fb38e30909110812r23ed0db0y80ae17178395694e@mail.gmail.com> <20090911215958.GA30989@srcf.ucam.org> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:14:24 -0500 Message-ID: <84fb38e30909112014h7efd120dnef85794e3ba3fc39@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: sony-laptop platform driver From: tsuraan To: Matthew Garrett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > The interface used for that isn't sony-specific, so sony-laptop is the > wrong place to put it. I've just submitted a patch to the nouveau > developers. In my case, I never want the nvidia card to be running. Would I load the nouveau driver for the sole purpose of shutting down the card? I don't want X to be using nouveau; it uses my intel card without any problems, and with a small fraction of the power consumption. Does nouveau work without X? I'm not familiar with how it is split between user and kernel space.