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[Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mo, 24 Mai 2010, dump@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi - "First of all". I had found no mention of a mailing list on your  
> webpage. I am actually not a ubuntu user. Apologies.

Me neither ;-) And I have now added a paragraph concerning the mailing
list on the web page, thanks for reminding me.

> found out in the DSDT that the module's path for activating the video  
> card mode changed from OVGA to GFX0.

Bummer ... is there an easy way to discern your typoe of laptop from
the older ones so that can be automaticall switched? Otherwise I can
add a module paramter for that.

> detected by the nvidia driver after this change. However on my kernel,  
> there still seems to be some ACPI troubles and the card does not appear  
> to be fully active, or something like that. That is, it will refuse  
> copying from/to video memory and thus X will still fail to start.

Bummer, so it seems we are again hosed there unless someone comes up
really understanding what is going on. It is for sure not me ;-)

Best wishes

Norbert
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