Bug#629418: NVIDIA PowerMizer not working - check acpid

[Andreas Beckmann]

Hi Diggory,

please check what Carl suggested: acpid needs to be running and the
driver needs to connect to it.

If that solves your problem, please drop some bits about this in the
forum and I'll add some information to the README.

Andreas

On 2011-11-03 07:14, Carl Michal wrote:
>> I have set up nvidia's PowerMizer to use different profiles on mains
>> and battery power as documented at
>> http://tutanhamon.com.a/technovodstvo/NVIDIA-UNIX-driver/ , however
>> according to nvidia-settings the laptop is always on mains power, even
>> when it's actually running off the battery:
> 
>>> $ nvidia-settings -q GPUPowerSource -t
>>> 0
> 
>> I noticed that OpenSUSE running on the same laptop detects the power
>> source correctly, so might this have something to do withpackaging?
>> Looks like I have 260.19.44 installed on openSUSE and 270.41.19 on
>> this debian system.
> 
> If this is still a problem, check that acpid is running!  Look in
> Xorg.0.log - the driver reports whether it was able to connect to acpid
> successfully or not.  That was my problem...
> 
> Carl