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[Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nouveau has existed for a long time, older versions just do not support
newer cards (surprise!). When your card is recognized, it'll take control
of it which may cause confusion because you were in the assumption that you
need a driver for it.

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Christine <christine@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> **
> On 02/05/2012 04:52 PM, Lekensteyn wrote:
>
> Hi Christine,
>
> The versions which are now in the repositories do not properly restore the
> alternatives path which cause the proprietary drivers (fglrx and
> nvidia-current) to fail on non-Optimus systems.
>
>
> That's ok. Took me a while to get the graphics card in my pc to work
> properly after they introduced Nouveau, so I knew where to look. Hybrid
> graphics is not the only issue with graphics cards since ubuntu 10.10.
>
> dagdag
> Christine
>
>
>  The next version will contains the below commands to fix these paths:
>
>     for arch in x86_64-linux-gnu i386-linux-gnu; do
>         update-alternatives --force --auto ${arch}_gl_conf 2>/dev/null ||
> true
>     done
>
>     # versions before Oneiric without multiarch
>     update-alternatives --force --auto gl_conf 2>/dev/null || true
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Christine <christine@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Bumblebee works, the card is switched on, and I even get nvidia settings
>> if I start that using optirun. Eclipse seems to crash more often, maybe I
>> shouldn't run that in optirun.
>>
>> One thing is that I accidentally typed "apt-get install bumblebee" on the
>> wrong keyboard. Took me a while to get that system back, the bumblebee
>> uninstall didn't remove much :-|
>> Yes, I am blond and absent minded.
>>
>>
>> dagdag
>> Christine
>>
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