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[Alexandre Kaspar <alexandre.kaspar@xxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone.

I'm using both cards for their specific "raison d'être". I am on Fedora 12.
However, I have troubles to use both transparently.

I only use acpi_osi=... so that I can cold reboot and switch from one  
card to the other.
That works fine. My problem concerns the libGL.so files which seem to  
have some troubles.
I heard someone on Fedora too, which was able to use both cards well.  
Does it really mean he can use both cards at their whole value ?

Of course, I can use both easily. My problem is to use both in their  
best way which I cannot by now.

uname -a give :
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon  
Jan 18 20:06:44 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

The kernel has a support for the intel card out of the box. That's fine.
It has no out-of-the-box support for the nvidia card though.
And there is the problem... because if I install the nvidia kmod, then  
I can use the nvidia card well.
But then, I cannot use the intel card with the 3d acceleration.

You may argue : why do I need to use the intel card with 3d  
acceleration ? And my reason is simply that I love gnome-shell. I use  
it by now and cannot come back to the normal gnome (or I would'nt like  
to, I would be sad ... :( ).

And as you may know, gnome-shell needs opengl rendering support which  
I have not when I have nvidia installed because there seems to be a  
library conflict between the intel and the nvidia libGL whatever what  
I do.

Is there anyone who has both cards working with 3d acceleration (would  
be easier if he was on Fedora too, but otherwise, it still useful to  
me) ?

Thanks for the help
Alexandre Kaspar

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