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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

can you do an lsmod and copy+paste the results here?

I just noticed Fedora is incorporating nouveau patches faster, so
people with a bit of time in their hands, please try the latest Fedora
:-)

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:33 AM, éric <hartmann.eric@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok,
>
> I've just donwloaded and tested the daily image of Lucid on my ul30vt
> I did not find in xorg logs that xorg use the nouveau driver but I
> have Compiz and all effects working.
> How can I be sure that nouveau driver is used ?
>
> However this is really great news.
>
> -éric
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 07:06, Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> People have mentioned the latest EDID patches in the kernel and
>> nouveau as possible solutions for this nvidia card, while we wait for
>> the nvidia linux developers to support it. Has anyone tried nouveau
>> using the latest Ubuntu Lucid live CD?
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Yi-Chen(John) Li <johnyc.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I have the same issue (two little white strips on a blank screen) with my
>>> ul80vt ubuntustudio 9, it looks like Xorg can only work with 1st graphic
>>> card which is intel on PCI:0:2:0, specify busID to PCI:1:0:0 in xorg.conf
>>> didn't help.
>>> I installed the module to turn off the nv card, but would really like to use
>>> nv card for some CUDA work.
>>> As far as I know, there are 4 possible solutions:
>>>
>>> 1. Get Xorg to support two hybrid graphic cards proper
>>> 2. Get ASUS to have switchable default graphic card in BIOS (UL50 had some
>>> success with this)
>>> 3. Get nvidia to investigate the issue
>>> 4. Patch Xorg so the detection of default device doesn't get in the way of
>>> nvidia init
>>>
>>> I would like to know what you think might be the issue, and the fix most
>>> likely to solve the problem.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:43 AM, matteo malvezzi <randomas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not familiar with nvidia's bug reporting system, does it allow for
>>>> comments like launchpad or not? If it does we could just post one and all
>>>> tag in afterwards.
>>>> If not maybe we should decide what to write in the bug report and make a
>>>> list of the necessary files to attach.
>>>> If this is useful to anyone I used the get-edid and parse-edid commands to
>>>> generate appropriate strings for xorg.conf (ul30vt):
>>>>   # EDID version 1 revision 3
>>>> Section "Monitor"
>>>> # Block type: 2:0 3:f
>>>> # Block type: 2:0 3:fe
>>>> # Block type: 2:0 3:fe
>>>> Identifier "AUO:2c10"
>>>> VendorName "AUO"
>>>> ModelName "AUO:2c10"
>>>> # Block type: 2:0 3:f
>>>> # Block type: 2:0 3:fe
>>>> # Block type: 2:0 3:fe
>>>> # DPMS capabilities: Active off:no  Suspend:no  Standby:no
>>>> Mode "1366x768" # vfreq 60.016Hz, hfreq 48.193kHz
>>>> DotClock 72.000000
>>>> HTimings 1366 1414 1446 1494
>>>> VTimings 768 771 777 803
>>>> Flags "-HSync" "-VSync"
>>>> EndMode
>>>> # Block type: 2:0 3:f
>>>> # Block type: 2:0 3:fe
>>>> # Block type: 2:0 3:fe
>>>> EndSection
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:55:21 +0000
>>>> > From: avilella@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> > To: hartmann.eric@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> > CC: asus-ul30@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 541d.handra@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> > Subject: Re: [Asus-ul30] help me
>>>> >
>>>> > I would suggest that *everybody* with a UL*0Vt model sends a bug
>>>> > report to nvidia. They may not know that there are 66 team members for
>>>> > the asus-ul series team, many of which with nvidia cards...
>>>> >
>>>> > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:51 PM, éric <hartmann.eric@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> > > Hi, I have the same issue.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Right now I'm using the Intel driver with the deb package that allow
>>>> > > to shut down the nvidia card at boot time.
>>>> > > I don't know wether or not the Fast Button is working with this
>>>> > > package, perhaps not, because the kernel does not seems to trap the
>>>> > > event when I test it.
>>>> > > Nevertheless, powertop show that the consumption is < 10 Watts, and
>>>> > > without the package it's more than 14 Watts.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > For using the nvidia driver, it seems that there is no solution right
>>>> > > now. I cannot find anyone that have the nvidia driver working with
>>>> > > Linux, some people with Sony laptop had successfully used the edid
>>>> > > workaround to identify the screen.  As I don't have anymore windows 7,
>>>> > > I cannot extract it and test (I've try with read-edid, but
>>>> > > unsuccessfully).
>>>> > >
>>>> > > I send a bug report to nvidia as Albert suggested without any response
>>>> > > right now.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > So remove the nvidia driver from your xorg.conf file and you should be
>>>> > > able to use Linux but without 3D acceleration (so no compiz).
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Hope that helps,
>>>> > >
>>>> > > -éric
>>>> > >
>>>> > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 18:27, Gary Ritchie <chocolategary@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> > > wrote:
>>>> > >> I'm experiencing a similar issue. Seems to boot fine until it reaches
>>>> > >> gnome
>>>> > >> login, instead two small white lines are displayed at the top of the
>>>> > >> black
>>>> > >> screen. This is after I successfully logged into my fresh Ubuntu 9.10
>>>> > >> install, made some requested updates, and shutdown. I have not had
>>>> > >> the
>>>> > >> chance to install the .deb from this group.
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> > >> wrote:
>>>> > >>>
>>>> > >>> I am ccing to the asus launchpad team ml.
>>>> > >>>
>>>> > >>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:28 PM, handra pramana
>>>> > >>> <541d.handra@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> > >>> wrote:
>>>> > >>> > hi,
>>>> > >>> > i have notebook ASUS UL80Vt , after i installed vga nvidia in
>>>> > >>> > ubuntu i
>>>> > >>> > have
>>>> > >>> > problem because black screen and t try intalled from envyNG but
>>>> > >>> > the same
>>>> > >>> > problem and then i will try edit /etc/X11/Xorg.conf but still
>>>> > >>> > black
>>>> > >>> > scren,
>>>> > >>> > please help me ,please give me toturial fot install nvidia in
>>>> > >>> > ubuntu
>>>> > >>> >
>>>> > >>>
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