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Re: Testers needed - intel/nvidia nouveau working with github.com/awilliam module

 

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Ellington Santos
<ellington@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah! I compiled against kernel 2.6.28.3 and i got it! But my laptop is a
> Asus 1215N without MXMX and MXDS methods and method _DSM has different
> arguments:
>
>         Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
>         {
>             If (LEqual (Arg0, Buffer (0x10)
>                     {
>                         /* 0000 */    0xF8, 0xD8, 0x86, 0xA4, 0xDA, 0x0B,
> 0x1B, 0x47,
>                         /* 0008 */    0xA7, 0x2B, 0x60, 0x42, 0xA6, 0xB5,
> 0xBE, 0xE0
>
> I hope optimus work in linux someday.

Do you actually see a behavior change with asus-switcheroo then?
Without the correct _DSM/MXMX/MXDS, the module shouldn't be
registering a switcheroo handler, so you'll just end up using the one
nouveau registers.  Thanks,

Alex

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