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[Alexandre Kaspar <alexandre.kaspar@xxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody.

I use the switch bash file to switch between gl files for the intel  
card as well as for the nvidia one.
That's working fine.

However, there are some strange behaviours :

Firstly, the screen looks bigger on the intel one. It says the max  
size is only 1024/768 but it looks like something bigger than the  
1380/768 I use with the nvidia card.
I suppose the nvidia card delivers wrong screen size as well as the  
intel one. For the intel one, that's not so important since the screen  
is even larger as for the nvidia card. However, it also means I could  
get some bigger screen size for the nvidia one. I use 1380/768 in the  
xorg.conf for the nvidia card but the screen isn't as large as with  
the intel one. What to do ? How can I get the REAL screen size ?

Secondly, I can only use the brightness applet on gnome with the intel  
card. With it, all works out of the box. The application  
system-config-display works without problem too.
With the nvidia card, the applet doesn't work at all. Nothing seems  
recognized and I get an error when starting system-config-display from  
the command line. It doesn't find any display whereas I'm on my cube  
desktop ! It doesn't work with compiz, neither does it without compiz.
However, that's not so important since I can use the nvidia display  
panel instead which provides what I need. For the brightness applet, I  
can use the command line "nvclock -S value" instead (would be better  
to have a parameterized applet which provides a way to configure how  
the brightness is configured).

Thirdly, compiz only works with the nvidia card. With the intel card,  
I cannot use it. When clicking on "Enable desktop effects" (I'm on  
Fedora 10), it fails and compiz cannot be enabled...

Thanks all for your work and your help !

Alexandre Kaspar

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