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[Justin Karneges <justin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems I may have spoken too soon about the usefulness of the default driver 
for nvidia (nouveau).  I had only used the nvidia card for brief testing until 
today where I tried to use it for real work.  Well, I managed to freeze the 
system twice.  Erk :(  So yeah maybe proper operation does require installing 
the official drivers from nvidia.

I've had no problems with the intel card so far.

On Monday, May 02, 2011 10:46:24 AM Justin Karneges wrote:
> AFAIK yes.  From the logs it looks like nouveau is being used.
> 
> On Monday, May 02, 2011 10:30:37 AM Travis Reeder wrote:
> > 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.
> 
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