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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:49 PM, ben <unstaff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> after half a day of pain to get my gpu working on Lucid, I'm giving up.
> I ran into this group and send this email as a last hope....
>
> first let me give you my config :
>
> sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
> M11x
> sudo dmidecode -s system-version
> A01
> lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/' | grep VGA
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4
> Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device
> [10de:0caf] (rev a2)
>
> I had to install the very last kernel and nvidia driver to at least get
> gdm running in switching mode (M11x also has a driscrete mode that
> disable nvidia GPU)
>
> uname -a
> Linux lagr-laptop 2.6.34-020634rc6-generic #020634rc6 SMP Fri Apr 30
> 10:09:34 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> nvidia drivers :
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.24-pkg1.run
>
> now my xorg.conf looks like this :
>
> Section "Device"
>    Identifier     "Device0"
>    Driver         "nvidia"
>    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
>    BusID          "PCI:01:00:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>    Identifier     "Device1"
>    Driver         "fbdev"
>    VendorName     "Intel Mobile 4"
>    BusID          "PCI:00:02:00"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>    Identifier     "Screen0"
>    Device         "Device1"
>    Monitor        "Monitor0"
>    DefaultDepth    24
>    Option "MultiGPU" "On"
>    SubSection     "Display"
>        Depth       24
>    EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> everything is fine as long as my Screen has Device1 not Device0,
>
> but no acces to the nvidia GPU, which is my ultimate goal.
>
> this only option I see is to recompile the kernel with switcheroo like
> suggested here:
> http://asusm51ta-with-linux.blogspot.com/
>
> but since it's not for the same machine I have a felling it won;t work.
>
> any has some insight about this ?
>
> really what can I do ?
>
> thanks
>
> Ben
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