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[unstaff <unstaff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Up.

I was wondering how the switching in done for ati GPU ?
does this has to be done with the kernel or there is a possibility of having
some independent trigger ? (like a call to a driver function or something
similar)

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:29 PM, unstaff <unstaff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
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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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