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[Tais Plougmann Hansen <taisph@xxxxxx>]

Are you sure you're loading the nvidia module? Is your device recognized in
running "nvidia-smi -q"?

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:31, Zoltan Balazs
<zoltan.balazs.admin@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> well, i think (and hope) optimus linux support is only a matter of time.
> its a brand new technology, my cpu only got introduced 3 months ago -
> i5-2410m. i get decent integrated gpu performance, 20+  gig hd movies not a
> problem. turbo boost doesn't work but fortunatelybut i upgraded to 8gb ram
> under a 64-bit system and the native clock speed - 2.3 ghz its enaugh.
>
> as for the discrete card, i learned from the this mailing list that it is
> connected to the integrated one so its kind of a weird setup even nvidia
> struggled to get those drivers up and running on time for windows.
>
> if i could get correct bumblebee support with switch-on - use - switch off
> it would be more than enaugh for me. as far as i understood even if discrete
> works for native linux apps there can be serious problems for wine apps...
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Tais Plougmann Hansen <taisph@xxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Well, I guess I'm lucky I can force integrated graphics because forcing
>> discrete causes an unbelievably amount of problems. Problems such as X
>> freezes if I unplug/plug the AC, close/open the lid, adjust screen
>> brightness or sneeze anywhere near the laptop. Also, it often takes 5-6
>> reboots before I can successfully log in to X. It usually locks up the
>> keyboard, touchpad and trackpointer after login if I'm using discrete
>> graphics.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:13, Zoltan Balazs <
>> zoltan.balazs.admin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> then ur very lucky, i cant change it in my asus a52j series, so im stuck
>>> with hd3000 with full capabilities though.
>>> im really at the mercy of some skilled bumblebee developers im afraid. so
>>> far my discrete gt540m isn't even correctly recognized.....:(
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On 06.06.2011, at 10:36, Tais Plougmann Hansen <taisph@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Doesn't that really depend on the system? I can change Display/GPU in the
>>> BIOS on my ThinkPad W520 with Optimus. I can force the discreet/Nvidia GPU
>>> which effectively disables the integrated chipset and vice versa.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 16:31, Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía <<samsagax@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> samsagax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> > Is something like this even currently doable?
>>>>
>>>> Short answer: No, it can't.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not an expert but as the time goes and we are able to test and
>>>> experiment with Optimus machines, we have found that:
>>>> - The Nvidia card is conected to the intel integrated and not to the
>>>> screen.
>>>> - There is no way to turn off integrated without losing the monitor.
>>>> - The only thing plugged directly to the Nvidia card is the HDMI port (I
>>>> cant test it, I don't have any HDMI capable hardware).
>>>>
>>>> Hope this can help you. The bumblebee project is the way to use it and
>>>> we are going to develop it as much as we can in conjunction with
>>>> acpi_call to add functionality to mimic Optimus. But if NVIDIA corp is
>>>> not going to help us, we must help ourselves.
>>>> --
>>>> Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía < <samsagax@xxxxxxxxx>samsagax@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> El dom, 05-06-2011 a las 02:51 -0400, James escribió:
>>>> > Hello all,
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm recently got a Dell L702X and so far it's been a rather nice
>>>> > machine aside from the Optimus hurdle.  So far, it works just fine
>>>> > with the Intel chip, actually compiz capable but, I've got a 550M next
>>>> > to it.  So far, I've managed to use the acpi_call module
>>>> > ( <http://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call>
>>>> http://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call) to turn on and off the NVIDIA
>>>> > chip and I can confirm this by the amount of power being drawn from
>>>> > the battery.  My question is, with the NVIDIA chip enabled, is there
>>>> > anyway to have the NVIDIA proprietary driver take over?  I've tried
>>>> > this with and without the Intel VESA module but, with the same result,
>>>> > a black screen.  The monitor does not turn off into a standby state,
>>>> > it simply just display no content.  My guess would be that everything
>>>> > must go through the Intel chip before it can hit the NVIDIA and that
>>>> > the NVIDIA chip has to send everything back to the Intel chip due to
>>>> > the monitor being connected to the Intel chip.  Ideally I'd like to
>>>> > just have the NVIDIA chip always on with the NVIDIA driver handling
>>>> > things but, I suppose if it was this easy, there would be no need for
>>>> > the bumblebee project.  Is something like this even currently doable?
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> > James
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>>>
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>> Regards,
>> Tais Plougmann Hansen
>>
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>
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> --
> Zoltan Balazs
> Solaris / Red Hat Administrator
>



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