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[Guillaume BINET <gbin@xxxxxxxxx>]

For the size, you should use the same resolution (mine is 1600x900), then
on the nvidia side I have added the DPI to force it to the intel value : 

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Driver          "nvidia"
        Option "UseEDIDDpi" "FALSE"
        Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
        Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
EndSection

Now both looks exactly the same.

For the brighness I have added shortcuts for low, medium, high brightness so I 
can change it from my KDE panel easily.

I hope it helps,

Guillaume.

On Monday 01 June 2009, Alexandre Kaspar wrote:
> 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