Can not call acpi_call method in ubuntun 12.10

Question

I have a notebook has a optimus graphic cards(Nvidia). So I want to relax notebook with acpi_call method. But error is given. I had downloaded acpi_call_master from this web page: (https://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call) Then this zip is exracted by me, and following code is called in terminal by me. However these errors are given:

dagli@dagli-Inspiron-N5110:~/acpi_call-master$ ls
acpi_call.c  examples  Makefile  README.md  support
dagli@dagli-Inspiron-N5110:~/acpi_call-master$ sudo make
make -C /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/build M=/home/dagli/acpi_call-master modules
make: *** /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/build: Böyle bir dosya ya da dizin yok. Durdu.
make: *** [default] Hata 2

Answer 1

This is a kernel module and as such requires the Linux kernel headers to build. In many cases you should be able to identify the package that would provide that file using dpkg such as:

dpkg --search /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/build

You can do the same on the Ubuntu package site. Though it didn't exactly work, the package you need will be something like linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic. There do appear to be both x86 (32-bit) and x64 options. See if the following works:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic

Remember that you will have to learn how to configure/load kernel modules to make this work. It is not a standard user program.