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[Stefan Meisner Larsen <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My only observations with the Intel card is, that I got a black screen
when the graphics selector was in STAMINA setting, and managed to get NVidia
work in the SPEED setting. I have reinstalled (now 64 bit) so currently I
cant say more
than I did whatever the Janitor script was doing (hacked to run on my very
new Vaio Z).
I will however try again in the near future.

My main concern however is the touchpad not working, since it keeps me from
surfing from the sofa :-)

Cheers,
Stefan Meisner Larsen
2010/4/1 Chris Cannam <cannam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Stefan Meisner Larsen
> <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > OK, current status for me is, that NVidia drivers 195.36.15 works for me.
>
> Hm, not for me apparently -- it seems to fail in a rather obvious way,
> ignoring my BusID and picking the Intel card as its preferred device
> then failing with no devices found, even though nvidia-xconfig found
> the card OK.  Are you using the default configuration, or a specific
> config file?
>
> Also, did you manage to get the Intel driver running at the correct
> resolution, or have you not tried that?  I am still a bit puzzled
> about that, because the implication of Peter's observations about
> having to use Windows to retrieve the EDID for the nVidia driver
> (which I have done, but haven't managed to put to any successful use
> yet) seems to be that the Intel Linux driver cannot retrieve the
> display EDID either -- which would imply that there is no possibility
> of success using the KMS-based Intel drivers as you cannot prod them
> with the correct EDID data.  That can't be true, but I can't square
> the logic of it.
>
> So far I'm experiencing surprisingly abject failure in every
> direction.  I wish someone could have warned me 15 years ago that in
> 2010 I would still be piddling about with X config files.  I might
> have given up and gone off to do something useful like farming turnips
> instead.
>
>
> Chris
>



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