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[Rob Mukai <dothedog2010@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gyhor, Have you tried any of that in the post? Last time I tried to get the
PMD working I borked my install and had to reinstall from scratch. So I
have been a bit reluctant to try again. Let us know if you have any
progress.

Rob

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Gyhor <gyhor@xxxxxx> 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<http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-909802.html>
>
> regards
> gyhor
> PS: am I the only one, who is interested to get the PMD working?
>
>
>
> 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<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<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41265>
>>
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