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[Travis Reeder <travis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

So no extra drivers installed at all for the nvidia card?

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Justin Karneges <justin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I didn't, as I've heard some stories about people breaking their system.
>  I'm
> content with the default setup.
>
> On Monday, May 02, 2011 10:21:34 AM Travis Reeder wrote:
> > Did you install the official nvidia drivers?  I tried that on my first
> > attempt and it forced me to reinstall Ubuntu (only after trying to run
> that
> > nvidia-xconfig command or whatever it was though).
> >
> > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Justin Karneges <justin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > On Monday, May 02, 2011 09:46:38 AM Travis Reeder wrote:
> > > > I did the acpi_osi="" trick, but haven't tried to switch to the
> Nvidia
> > > > card, I just leave it on Stamina. Do you mean you can just use the
> > > > physical switch before booting up and it will work?
> > >
> > > Yep.  You'll know the trick is working if the LED lights up next to the
> > > switch
> > > position.
>