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Re: Dell Vostro 3450 joining the testing group

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but hybrid-windump is meant for nvidia Optimus
while I'm having an ATI Bacon solution?
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 00:57 -0400, Eric Appleman wrote:
> On 08/22/2011 02:45 PM, Stanisław Kardach wrote:
> > Hi again,
> > 11.7 gives the same effect as 11.8: a segfault. If anyone had a similar
> > problem and did manage to solve it then I'd be happy to send him my
> > Xorg.log files (I don't want to spam the whole list).
> >
> > With Regards,
> > Stanley Kardach
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 20:15 +0200, Stanisław Kardach wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm willing to ruin my Ubuntu set-up testing any new developments in
> >> switchable graphics for muxless systems so as asked on the group's main
> >> page I'm sending my basic info below:
> >>
> >>> sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
> >> Dell System Vostro 3450
> >>> sudo dmidecode -s system-version
> >> Not Specified
> >>> lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/' | grep VGA
> >> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd
> >> Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
> >> [8086:0116] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> >> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc NI
> >> Whistler [AMD Radeon HD 6600M Series] [1002:6741] (prog-if 00 [VGA
> >> controller])
> >>
> >> I'm running 3.0 kernel from Ubuntu Kernel Team along with xorg-edgers
> >> and glasen intel drivers (for this lovely Sandybridge GPU boost):
> >>> uname -a
> >> Linux SKComp 3.0.0-7-generic #9-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 30 06:17:29 UTC 2011
> >> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >>> X -version
> >> X.Org X Server 1.10.3.902 (1.10.4 RC 2)
> >>
> >> So far I have tested Catalyst 11.6 and 11.8 from AMD site and none of
> >> them seems to work even when forcing it to load via a hand-made
> >> xorg.conf (results with segfault). I'm going to try 11.7 just to be sure
> >> that AMD didn't break anything between releases.
> >>
> >> If I can help with anything please don't hesitate to write.
> >>
> >> With regards,
> >> Stanley Kardach
> >
> >
> >
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> AMD muxless is only supported on Llano+Radeon notebooks like the HP dv6z.
> 
> Sandy+Radeon isn't supported.
> 
> The closest thing I could recommend right now is a hybrid-windump approach.
> 
> - Eric
> 
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