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[ajmctaggart <ajmctaggart@xxxxxxxxx>]

I may be talking to myself here :) but I'll report anyways...

There is a new Nvidia driver out that will be in Ubuntu's next distro,
Karmic, which takes care of my earlier problems of not being able to
activate compiz...

.debs are here...https://launchpad.net/~voria/+archive/archive

Please note, this is a fix to my problem of following the directions to get
cold switching working, and still not being able to use Compiz on the
Nvidia-180 drivers in Ubuntu Jaunty amd64...

Thanks,
Anthony

HAS ANYONE EXPLORED WHAT I MENTIONED ON HOT SWAPPING POSSIBLILITY?

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:09 PM, ajmctaggart <ajmctaggart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Still have not figured this one out...any ideas?
>
> Basically, with all scripts and drivers in place...cold switching is no
> problem.  However, the Nvidia driver is killing my backlight controls and
> compiz capability...
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:23 AM, ajmctaggart <ajmctaggart@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Okay, I hae figured it out, at least partially...
>>
>> Something about the Nvidia driver causes me to lose compiz and backlight
>> controls, even when I'm in Stamina Mode.
>>
>> Leaving ALL settings the same, all switch scripts, etc...by simply
>> uninstalling the Nvidia 180 driver, and leaving my machine in stamina, all
>> returned to normal...
>>
>> I will now try to reinstall Nvidia, and blacklist in the
>> /etc/modprobe.d/sony.conf file...
>>
>> If anyone else knows how to help me fix this, it's greatly appreciated.
>> This is my production machine, and I knew I should have not tried this till
>> the weekend :(
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anthony
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> That sounds promising!
>>>
>>>
>>>> ALSO, I found an interesting hiccup that may help you gurus figure out
>>>> hot switching...After I couldn't get my brightness or Compiz working, I
>>>> figured that I'd try to re-test the sony module .9 by Eva...I was in speed
>>>> mode, and really wasn't thinking...When I did a "make test" the x server
>>>> died, and the light switched from speed to stamina, but the computer was
>>>> still running!  Nothing I did would bring up another x session and I
>>>> couldn't get to a terminal, but it still did "hot switch," in a sense!  So
>>>> maybe there is something there?  I really don't know...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help thus far, almost there!
>>>> -Anthony
>>>>
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