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[Gareth McCumskey <gmccumskey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can I not just disable the intel graphics card?

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 3:49 PM, authesserre samuel <sauthess@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> same as my last email, double check libGL libraries (when I had
> blackscreen, aticonfig didn't work...)
>
> It do not occurs all time, sometimes I think installer fails something...
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Gareth McCumskey <gmccumskey@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Heres a question.
>>
>> If I use Jockey to install the FGLRX drivers then I get blackscreen issues
>> as the driver is loaded. However, using the binary drivers off ATi's website
>> aticonfig doesn't even work.
>>
>> Somewhere, jockey tells tells the OS to use the driver, but the binary one
>> doesnt. I think thats the missing point for me as aticonfig doesnt even
>> detect the card apparently even though jockey does.
>>
>> Anyone know a way around that?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Antonin Delpeuch <antonin@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>>  Is it the same thing for nVidia cards ? I can't manage anymore to have
>>> the switch file show up again since I upgraded my kernel, even if
>>> vgaswitcheroo is still included in my kernel.
>>> I'm currently using a kernel with nouveau and i915 loaded.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Antonin Delpeuch
>>>
>>>
>>> On 17/04/2011 11:44, authesserre samuel wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry, little correction :
>>>
>>> they *can't* use the card at the same time
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM, authesserre samuel <sauthess@xxxxxxxxx
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> it's normal, vga_switcheroo is the open source implementation that need
>>>> intel + radeon oepnsource drievrs loaded.
>>>> When you install fglrx, radeon is blacklisted (they can use the card at
>>>> the same time) so vga_switcheroo isn't usable anymore.
>>>>
>>>> The only solution you have is to uninstall fglrx drivers... (or at list
>>>> unload fglrx module and load radeon one...)
>>>>
>>>> Hope this clarify the situation,
>>>>
>>>> BR,
>>>>
>>>>   On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Gareth McCumskey <
>>>> gmccumskey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just got myself a new notebook (HP Pavilion dv7) yesterday, and was
>>>>> disappointed to see it struggling with the hybrid graphics.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to follow the steps at
>>>>> http://asusm51ta-with-linux.blogspot.com/ but it doesn't work with the
>>>>> error message saying no such file or directory at
>>>>> /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch. This was after installing the FGLRX
>>>>> drivers through jockey-gtk. Any tips on getting that rc.local script to work
>>>>> correctly, i.e. have /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo actually be there?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Gareth McCumskey
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>>>>
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>>>> Authesserre Samuel
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Authesserre Samuel
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>>> 78180 Montigny le Bretonneux
>>> FRANCE
>>> 06-27-28-13-32
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>>>
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> Authesserre Samuel
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