Tell me more ×  My problem in a nutshell is that I have to run a
script every time I use my computer so I'm trying to automate
the process a bit.  My system has the nvidia gt540m vga card.
The card is dual. It has one high end card for demanding tasks,
and it uses the low end onboard card for everything else.
Ubuntu at this time does not support this type of vga card, and
it powers them both at all times, when only using the onboard
one.  This results in very low battery life time.  I am rather
new to ubuntu so I had to follow a ton of tutorials before
actually finding a script to solve the problem.  I downloaded an
acpi_call folder to the directory /home/anpel, and with the
following commands, I kill the card:  cd /acpi_call sudo insmod
acpi_call.ko sudo ./  Next step, since I had to manually run the
commands each and every time I booted, was to make a shell
script on my desktop, which I run, it prompts me for my
password, and after providing it, it kills my card. The script
looks like this:  cd ~/acpi_call