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My problem right now is fairly simple I just want to use the nvidia gpu all
the time.

So I would need to set it once when ubuntu boots.

what is the simplest way to achieve this ?

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ccing to the hybrid graphics mailing list
>
> 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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