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[Adam Hill <sidepipeuk@xxxxxxxxx>]

	Firstly for anyone who is about to go through what Justin has:

1) The README in my files directory is in no way meant to be a HOWTO... it is 
more like a set of notes and you really need to know a little more than for 
the average HOWTO! The reason for this is that there simply isn't a way to get 
the Intel card working that I know of on the latest Arrandale based Z's using 
grub2 etc. other than using my kernel, and it seemed that nobody was making 
any progress, so I had a go. HOWEVER, that kernel is very much a hack and also 
work in progress, the hope being that at some point I ( or someone else ) can 
find the real reasons why the card doesn't work with the stock kernels.

2) At the moment, unless you have the 1920x1080 panel, there is no real point 
downloading the 2.6.35 based kernel unless you intend to continue to try to 
work on it ( in which case you'll need to get the 2.6.35-rc6 sources and my 
patch. ) Currently, I've not found out how to make the 1600x900 panel work. 
the NVidia card works with the stock kernels fine, as long as you boot an old 
kernel in speed mode first. I've provided an old kernel with a reboot hacked 
in to the pci setup code for convenience ( it reboots as quickly as possible ) 
but that's it.

	The reason why the NVidia kernel did not build would probably be because 
I didn't keep the headers deb updated. I've just moved the test kernels out of 
the test directory and in to the main one, and deleted the old ones, so that 
should no longer be a problem.

	Finally, I don't have much time at all to work on this, and it is quite 
possible that progress is being made elsewhere because I can't keep track of 
everything!

Adam.


On Monday 16 August 2010 04:52:05 Justin Karneges wrote:
> On Sunday 15 August 2010 13:33:30 Justin Karneges wrote:
> > So far I seem to have to choose between either 1600x900 nouveau,
> > with a black screen after a few minutes of use (not a full crash, I can
> > still type and hear sound, etc, but I don't know how to make the screen
> > come back...) or 1024x768 nvidia, which seems to have more longevity but
> > looks terrible.
> > 
> > If anyone has a tip on the best way to configure X, or the nvidia driver,
> > that would be great.  Adam's guide doesn't spend much time on it.
> 
> Found the problem with nvidia: the kernel module wasn't actually loading.
> dmesg revealed a kernel version incompatibility.  This seems to be fixed in
> Adam's latest debs in his 'test' subdirectory.  Install those versions,
> then rebuild the nvidia module, and then it loads and X has the correct
> resolution.
> 
> -Justin
> 
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