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[Jos Hickson <jos.hickson@xxxxxxxxx>]

I should also add that I needed to avoid use of uvesafb as it seemed to
cause problems when the i915 module was loaded.  However, loading the i915
gives a nice 200x56 framebuffer which is much better than the uvesafb was
able to provide.

Also, I can run X without switching off the NVidia - I just need to avoid
loading the nouveau module.  I'm not sure if that is to be expected.

Jos


On 2 April 2011 12:48, Jos Hickson <jos.hickson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've recently bought a Dell L702X (Core i5-2410M with SandyBridge GPU;
> nVidia Geforce GT 550 M) and am running Gentoo (kernel 2.6.37 with gentoo
> patches) on it.
>
> rashomon ~ # dmidecode -s system-product-name
> Dell System XPS L702X
> rashomon ~ # dmidecode -s system-version
> Not Specified
> rashomon ~ # lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/' |
> grep VGA
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device
> [8086:0116] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device
> [10de:0dd6] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> rashomon ~ #
>
> I can use acpi_call to switch off the nvidia card using the attached
> dellL702X.sh script which I adapted from the asus1215n.sh script provided
> with acpi_call.
>
> Also attached is my DSDT.dsl file.
>
> Hope this is of use to somebody,
>
> Jos
>