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[John Evans <bucksteep@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm happily running the Nvidia drivers with Natty on my Z12. No BIOS hack,
no Preining script (yet), just "acpi_osi= " on the boot line (which goes
into effect at shutdown).

(However, installing the Nvidia drivers [partially] disabled my Intel
drivers; so now with the 3-way switch on "stamina," I have to start X
manually (xinit), and I don't get any GLX goodness: the xorg log says
"Failed to initialize GLX extension - Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found".
Pretty sure I'll sort this out -- one of these weekends...)

John E.

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:29 PM, 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.
>
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