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[Nicolas Joyard <joyard.nicolas@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm going to give it a try in a few days.

Nicolas JOYARD



On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:03, Fra B <frab1215@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm not an expert oh this, do you have skills to make it?
>
> I think it's possible join in xorg.conf two sections for both graphic card
> without problems, but at the moment I think I need (or we need) to improve
> nouveau configurations because when X server was started on tv via HDMI
> nvidia card wasn't workingvery well. My images wasn't clear.
>
> If you want I can give you my test log and the code I' ve used.
> FraB
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> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Nicolas Joyard <joyard.nicolas@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> This is very good news ! Thanks for your tests.
>>
>> Would it seem feasible to disassemble/string-search windows drivers to
>> look for ACPI method names ? Maybe we could find a method to send the
>> discrete video signal to the integrated chip (and thus display it on the
>> flat panel)...
>>
>> Nicolas JOYARD
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 23:09, Fra B <frab1215@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi to all, I have some good news about vga_switcheroo and 1215n.
>>>
>>> I try to make a summary of my test.
>>>
>>> I use the 2.6.38 kernel from kernel.org.
>>>
>>> I boot linux in runlevel 3 and by default my kernel loades module i915
>>> for intel integrated graphic card.
>>> Then when I load the module nouveau via modprobe in /var/log/messages
>>> file I see cleary that vga_switcheroo is enabled..
>>> I connect HDMI port to a tv..
>>> At this point I try to switch video cards and it happens that a netbook's
>>> flat panel become gray color as the console goes on tv, so I conclude that
>>> the nvidia card is actually working.
>>> At this point I start the graphical session with the command: init 5
>>> and X server doesn't start automatically because it needs nvidia
>>> configuration in xorg.conf.
>>> So I make a basic configuration and the login screen is prompted to me on
>>> the tv, via hdmi.
>>>
>>> At this point, however, I need your help to better understand how to use
>>> flat panel of netbook with the disceret graphic card.
>>> In fact, if I do the test without connecting the HDMI cable I get nothing
>>> on flat panel ofnetbooks.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>> Thanks to all
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Hans Persson <perssonhans78@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> As far as I understand it is not possible to use the nvidia chip on a
>>>> Optimus computer in Linux at the moment.
>>>> What is possible and what i just did on my ASUS 1215N is to switch off
>>>> the nvidia chip to save power.
>>>>
>>>> I'll paste what I just did below.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Hans Persson
>>>>
>>>> ___________________________________________________
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> That did the trick, now it shuts down nicely.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Hans
>>>> - Dölj citerad text -
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2011/4/4 Tomasz Famulski <famulski@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Try to add line
>>>>
>>>> blacklist nouveau
>>>>
>>>> to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Tomasz
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > fwd to the mailing list.
>>>> >
>>>> > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Hans Persson <perssonhans78@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >> Hi Albert,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Yes loading and running it works, as seen in attatched file. My power
>>>> >> consumption is down by apporx. 4 W.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> But my computer will not shut down after switching of the NVidia
>>>> chip.
>>>> >> I guess it's because my computer still loads the nv driver?!
>>>> >> I still don't know how to stop this driver from loading.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> There are some error messages while trying to shut down, which I can
>>>> not
>>>> >> find in dmesg, so I'm afraid I can not send them to you.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Cheers
>>>> >> Hans
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> 2011/4/3 Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Hi Hans,
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Can you check if this works for your ASUS 1215N?
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> https://lists.launchpad.net/hybrid-graphics-linux/msg00254.html
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Hans Persson <
>>>> perssonhans78@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> >>> wrote:
>>>> >>> > Hi all,
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > I have a ASUS 1215N as follows:
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > 1215N
>>>> >>> > x.x
>>>> >>> > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation N10
>>>> Family
>>>> >>> > Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a001] (rev 02) (prog-if 00
>>>> [VGA
>>>> >>> > controller])
>>>> >>> > 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation
>>>> Device
>>>> >>> > [10de:0a76] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > I hope I will be able to help with testing and debugging.
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > Regards
>>>> >>> > Hans Persson
>>>> >>> >
>>>>
>>>> 2011/4/11 Fra B <frab1215@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>>>  Hi to everyone,
>>>>> I've got an Asus 1215N.
>>>>> I use Mandriva 2010.2 x86_64.
>>>>>
>>>>> Recently I've compiled kernel 2.6.38 from kernel.org.
>>>>>
>>>>> In my linux distribution i915 and nouveau kernel module are
>>>>> blacklisted, and I've uncomment this 2 line in
>>>>> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mdv.
>>>>> So I can load both this 2 modules:
>>>>>
>>>>> # lsmod | grep i915
>>>>> i915                  487045  2
>>>>> drm_kms_helper         34769  2 nouveau,i915
>>>>> drm                   215732  5 nouveau,ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper
>>>>> i2c_algo_bit            5705  2 nouveau,i915
>>>>> button                  6065  2 nouveau,i915
>>>>> i2c_core               30375  7
>>>>> nouveau,videodev,i2c_i801,i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
>>>>> video                  12802  2 nouveau,i915
>>>>>
>>>>> # lsmod | grep nouveau
>>>>> nouveau               675181  0
>>>>> ttm                    66834  1 nouveau
>>>>> drm_kms_helper         34769  2 nouveau,i915
>>>>> drm                   215732  5 nouveau,ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper
>>>>> i2c_algo_bit            5705  2 nouveau,i915
>>>>> button                  6065  2 nouveau,i915
>>>>> i2c_core               30375  7
>>>>> nouveau,videodev,i2c_i801,i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
>>>>> video                  12802  2 nouveau,i915
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've this in /etc/fstab:
>>>>> # cat /etc/fstab | grep debugfs
>>>>> none            /sys/kernel/debug debugfs defaults 0 0
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> When both i915 and nouveau are loaded in the kernel I can see this in
>>>>> /var/log/messages :
>>>>>
>>>>> kernel: VGA switcheroo: detected DSM switching method
>>>>> \_SB_.PCI0.P0P4.GFX0 handle
>>>>> kernel: nouveau 0000:04:00.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
>>>>> kernel: nouveau 0000:04:00.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
>>>>> kernel: nouveau 0000:04:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
>>>>> kernel: nouveau 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ
>>>>> 16
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Detected an NV50 generation card
>>>>> (0x0a8b00b1)
>>>>> kernel: vga_switcheroo: enabled
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from
>>>>> PRAMIN
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: ... BIOS signature not found
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from
>>>>> PROM
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: ... BIOS signature not found
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from
>>>>> PCIROM
>>>>> kernel: nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Invalid ROM contents
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: ... BIOS signature not found
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from
>>>>> ACPI
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: ... appears to be valid
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: BIT BIOS found
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Bios version 70.18.55.00
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Pointer to BIT loadval table
>>>>> invalid
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: TMDS table version 2.0
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Found Display Configuration Block
>>>>> version 4.0
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Raw DCB entry 0: 02010300 00000000
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Raw DCB entry 1: 02021362 00020010
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Raw DCB entry 2: 0000000e 00000000
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: DCB connector table: VHER 0x40 5 16
>>>>> 4
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0:   0: 0x00000000: type 0x00 idx 0
>>>>> tag 0xff
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0:   1: 0x00002161: type 0x61 idx 1
>>>>> tag 0x08
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Adaptor not initialised, running
>>>>> VBIOS init tables.
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 0 at
>>>>> offset 0xDE31
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: 0xDD98: i2c wr fail: -6
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 1 at
>>>>> offset 0xE2DC
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 2 at
>>>>> offset 0xEE88
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 3 at
>>>>> offset 0xEEA1
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 4 at
>>>>> offset 0xEF88
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table at offset
>>>>> 0xEFED
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: 3 available performance level(s)
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: 0: memory 135MHz core 135MHz shader
>>>>> 270MHz voltage 850mV
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: 1: memory 405MHz core 405MHz shader
>>>>> 810MHz voltage 850mV
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: 3: memory 790MHz core 475MHz shader
>>>>> 1092MHz voltage 900mV
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: c: memory 950MHz core 550MHz shader
>>>>> 200MHz voltage 850mV
>>>>> kernel: [TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 1024824 kiB.
>>>>> kernel: [TTM] Initializing pool allocator.
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Detected 512MiB VRAM
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: 512 MiB GART (aperture)
>>>>> kernel: [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
>>>>> kernel: [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: ACPI backlight interface available,
>>>>> not registering our own
>>>>> kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: allocated 1024x768 fb: 0x60000000,
>>>>> bo ffff8800519ac400
>>>>> kernel: fb1: nouveaufb frame buffer device
>>>>> kernel: [drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.16 20090420 for 0000:04:00.0 on
>>>>> minor 1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've this in debug fs:
>>>>> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
>>>>> 0:IGD:+:Pwr:0000:00:02.0
>>>>> 1:DIS: :Pwr:0000:04:00.0
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> so vga_switcheroo seems to be enabled, but if I try to switch whit
>>>>> this command:
>>>>> # echo "DIS" > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
>>>>> my screen goes in a gray color state, it doesn't off, but I can't interact
>>>>> with the system
>>>>>  and I need to poweroff pc with power button.
>>>>> I've see this in messages:
>>>>> kernel: fbcon: Remapping primary device, fb1, to tty 1-63
>>>>> kernel: i915: switched off
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions to make other steps to enable the nvidia card? What I
>>>>> can do now?
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
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