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[Nicklas Overgaard <nicklas@xxxxxxxxx>]

> PS: am I the only one, who is interested to get the PMD working?

NO! Definately not, I've been attempting since August last year when I 
recevied my laptop, but of course without luck...

But nice to see some progress :)

BR
Nicklas

On 2012-01-31 10:14, Gyhor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> some more information how to get Intel and ATI working together.
> [HOWTO] Using recent muxless Intel/ATI hybrid graphics
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-909802.html
> PS: am I the only one, who is interested to get the PMD working? 
> regards
> gyhor
>
>
>
> Am 04.01.2012 17:29, schrieb vick:
> > > I think there are more notebooks with that problem:
> >
> > > > The radeon has no connectors specified in the vbios so it's muxless.
> > > >   Not much we can do with it until X gets re-architected to decouple
> > > >   display and rendering.
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630345#40
> > >
> > > Is that the same Problem, that we have?
> >
> >
> > It might be but we don't get that far. In their case it could be a 
> > problem where the Radeon card is not enabled via ACPI so there are no 
> > connectors that show, with our laptop the card is enabled as soon as 
> > the PMD is plugged in but the drm/radeon driver cannot read the vbios.
> > I suspect that the problem with our laptops could be coming from the 
> > PCI code since the Radeon card is shown at PCI bus 16:00 but the 
> > proprietary ATI drivers only find a card at 22:00 which is never 
> > listed in lspci so there could be an issue where the card is not 
> > assigned the correct pci bus for some reason and thus the driver 
> > cannot read the vbios contents. I created the other bug but I've 
> > gotten the standard muxless response and no traction so please post a 
> > response here so that maybe we would get some more attention 
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41265
> >
> >
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