How to enable vga switcheroo on an Asus U41S?

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Published on 2012-01-09T16:13:44Z Indexed on 2012/04/02 23:42 UTC
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I have Asus U41S notebook with 2 wideocards, Intel HD Graphics 3000 and GeForce GT540M. I want to turn off the GF videocard, and work only with Intel.

On the internet I found out how to do this with vga_switcheroo :

lspci | grep VGA to see what number have my videocards
cat /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch to see what for videocard is active

but terminal says that it can't find locations of /vgaswitcheroo/switch. What must I do?

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