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[Brett Howard <brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 15:23 -0400, K. Posern wrote:
> Hi Brett,
> 
> Could you be so kind to post your nvidia xorg config.
> 
> Otherwise:
> I am not sure about Adams kernel cause I use the vanilla one.
> But I can assure you that compiz works with no problems with the vanilla
> kernel 2.6.35.5 kernel.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Knuth
> 
> ---
> 
> On 10/26/2010 01:49 PM, Brett Howard wrote:
> > I'm not able to get compiz to load at all on my Intel card.  I find that
> > I boot up using the generic kernel with my NVIDIA xorg.confg in place
> > and things work great.  All the tools work as they should.
> > Transparancies, scale, cube effects and the like...
> > 
> > However when I switch to the intel card I remove the xorg.config and
> > then boot Adam's kernel.  It comes up and works and draws less power and
> > only in the Intel card do the FN+F5/F6 brightness controls work but I'm
> > not able to do any compiz there.  I also find that trying to open any
> > flash video in full screen causes flash to crash on the Intel side but
> > not on the Nvidia side.
> > 
> > ~Brett 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 17:55 +0200, pnc wrote:
> >> Danilo,
> >> thanks for your reply.
> >> In my case the problem was the broken upgrade to maverick.
> >> I have made a new installation of Kubuntu 10.10 and used the
> >> sony-VGN-Zseries-janitor script (with kernel 2.6.35-22-generic) and it
> >>  works almost perfectly.
> >> I am able to use both the graphic cards.
> >>
> >> I say 'almost perfectly' because when I use the intel card the desktop
> >> effect are always disabled at the beginning and I have to switch them
> >> on each time...
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> pier
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Danilo Šegan <danilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> У сре, 20. 10 2010. у 10:22 +0200, pnc пише:
> >>>
> >>>> I was very happy with my sony and kubuntu (10.4) before upgrading to maverick.
> >>>> I was using the sony-VGN-Zseries-janitor script and everything was ok.
> >>>> I mainly used the intel card since I need battery duration.
> >>>> I received an error while upgrading to maverick and I finished the
> >>>> upgrade with apt-get -f install and apt-get dist-upgrade.
> >>>> Now I am able to use the nvidia card but not the intel one: the
> >>>> systems hangs and I have to turn it off using the button.
> >>>
> >>> Look for my other reply on this mailing list a few minutes ago: I had to
> >>> blacklist "nouveau" module for Maverick to boot with the intel card.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Danilo
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 260.19.12  (buildmeister@builder101)  Fri Oct  8 11:47:04 PDT 2010


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection