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[Diego <diegosolor@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've been doing some test on my asus u36jc:

1- After the little hack you proposed us (to get the module asus-switcheroo
successfully launched) I still can not rise the X with the nouveau driver,
the screen remains black and I can do nothing. BUT! if I connect a screen
through the HDMI that sreen boot with the nouveau driver! Although I still
can't use the laptop screen...it's a progress!

2-I also try to use the nvidia's private driver, because the experience with
nouveau is still very poor. after try i (a lot) it was a complete failure.
After blacklist the nouveau driver and launch the asus-switch module as
dummy (adding the line asus-switcher.dummy-client=1
to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and updating the initramfs) I got nothing

3- As you say, Fedora works perfect with a 3D desktop experience, but there
are no luck with ubuntu natty. It seems the ubuntu team decided to exclude
the gallium 3D of nouveau for stability reasons (
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTM2Mw)

thats all. If you need any log file I'll be glad to help you

thanks again!

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Alex Williamson <
alex.l.williamson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:38 AM, Diego <diegosolor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > firstable, many many thanks for make this module, I was waiting for
> months
> > to can use my nvidia card in linux
> > I have ubuntu 11.04 beta, with the kernel 2.6.38, and I have a doub about
> > when to launch the order "echo OFF > ..." or "echo DIS > ...", because if
> I
> > do for example a "echo DDIS > ..." and then I reboot de X, I only obtain
> a
> > black screen.
> > If I lauch ubuntu in recovery mode, with no X up, and then I tray to
> power
> > off the intel card or change between then, the sreen freezes again and
> > nothing happends
> > I had no problems with the compilation part, and the
> module asus-switcheroo
> > starts any time I boot
> > can you help me plz?
>
> I've been finding that with newer kernels, like the one in Ubuntu
> 11.04 and Fedora 15, nouveau often isn't loading properly from the
> initramfs.  It will complain about finding an unsupported chipset.  If
> you unload it after boot and reload it loads ok, but something isn't
> quite right with switcheroo then.  What seems to work is to blacklist
> nouveau so it doesn't get loaded in the initramfs, then load it during
> the initscripts.  To do this, try:
>
> 1) Add this line to /etc/modprobe.d/asus-switcheroo.conf:
> blacklist nouveau
>
> 2) Add this line to /etc/modules:
> nouveau
>
> 3) Remove the asus-switcheroo line from /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
>
> 4) Rebuild initramfs: update-initramfs -u -k `uname -r`
>
> 5) Reboot
>
> That works for me on ubuntu 11.04 on my ul30vt, though unity doesn't
> want to run with nouveau.  For Fedora 15, the equivalent instructions
> are:
>
> 1) Add this line to /etc/modprobe.d/asus-switcheroo.conf:
> blacklist nouveau
>
> 2) Create /etc/sysconfig/modules/asus-switcheroo.modules containing:
> #!/bin/sh
> modprobe nouveau
>
> 3) chmod 0755 /etc/sysconfig/modules/asus-switcheroo.modules
>
> 4) Remove asus-switcheroo from /etc/dracut.conf.d/asus-switcheroo.conf
>
> 5) Rebuild initramfs with: dracut -f /boot/initramfs-`uname -r`.img `uname
> -r`
>
> 6) Reboot
>
> This also works for Fedora 14 and should maybe be how we set things up
> by default.  Fedora doesn't seem to have any trouble running gnome3
> with 3D support on nouveau after switching to DIS, so I'm not sure why
> Ubuntu isn't working.  Hope this helps,
>
> Alex
>