hybrid-graphics-linux team mailing list archive

[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

By looking at the reports in the mailing list, one can see that some
configurations work.
There are examples where one can select a pre-Win7 compatible BIOS
configuration, for example, some Asus and Dell laptops, if I recall
correctly. Some other laptops have nouveau working via vga_switcheroo.

But reporting that it doesn't work or it only works partially is
invaluable anyway.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Adrien Siebert
<adrien.siebert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> unfortunately, at this point, there is basically no support provided by
> nVidia for Optimus on Linux/Xorg (and apparently, no intent to in the
> future). Since the testing for the QA is all about the proprietary drivers,
> nothing will work on our laptops, since installing/activating those nVidia
> drivers will result in breaking the init of the X server.
> All testing for QA would result in the same issue in the nvidia part of this
> group, so... The best we can probably do is filling a global bug about it,
> as Launchpad doesn't really have one at this point.
>
> [Photon]
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I think so far the functionalities are related to kernel versions, not
>> the Ubuntu distro per se, but it's good to report back on what works
>> and doesn't work to people like ubuntu-qa.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Graeme H <graeme@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >> For those that have a system with a functioning nVidia card, and can
>> >> spare 1 hour to help testing the next version of Ubuntu:
>> >>
>> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-qa/2011-March/001484.html
>> >
>> > Given that this is the hybrid graphics mailing list, is there expected
>> > to be any functionality to enable the NVidia chipsets on hybrid
>> > laptops in Natty? Specifically, is doing these tests on our hybrid
>> > setups useful, or is it just going to fail all the tests because it
>> > fails to init the graphics card?
>> >
>> > Graeme
>> >
>>
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