RC6 Disabled Again

RC6, the power-saving feature that should be one of the promising feature in the next Linux Kernel has (again) been switched off by default (you can turn it manually though) after the developer find it quite unstable on his machine and saying that it's not ready for prime time. RC6 is capable of saving power for mobile (and desktop) systems by allowing the integrated graphics processor to rest in a lower power-state, while at the same time is capable of boosting OpenGL performance (Taken from Phoronix).

The commit by Keith Packard has been approved by Linus and merged into Linux Kernel 3.2. If you prefer to enable this feature on your machine, pass i915.i916_enable_rc6=1 as a kernel command-line parameter.

ASUS-Switcheroo Project

For two years, i have spent my time to find a way to make my NVidia card works on my ASUS laptop since it's a hybrid (it has Intel and NVidia combination). Since i only have Linux on it, and Linux doesn't seem to be supported by Asus, so the only thing i can do with it is disabling NVidia so that it consumes less power than when both of them are working together.

Dave Airlie's switcheroo project doesn't help much, as it doesn't work on my hardware, but there's hope by the new project by A. William called Asus-switcheroo. Basically, he tried to hack Airlie's work but focusing on Asus laptop only. He made it for his ULV30, so what i need now is to try to hack it so that it will work for my ULV80vt

The script provided only for Fedora, Ubuntu, and ArchLinux. I need to hack it so that it will work on Slackware as well