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[Henrik Olsson <henrik@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:39, Gyhor <gyhor@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 01.02.2012 20:13, schrieb vick:
>
>> If I understand the muxless model correctly you can't disable the Intel
>> card because that's where all the monitors attach.
>> So you need the Intel card to drive the monitors but you need to send any
>> rendering requests to the ATI card. That split is the problem because right
>> now xserver will send the rendering requests to the same card that the
>> monitor is attached to so unless the ATI driver has some ability to tunnel
>> the rendering requests coming for the Intel card to the ATI card then it's
>> not going to work.
>
> I am not sure. Because in Windows i can configure the external card in two
> modes:
> - used to control more displays, which are connect on the pmd (not muxless?)
> - used to accelerate to notebook-display (muxless?)
>
> So i think, that there are both way possible.
>
>
>> If you have the time and desire you can give the new ATI drivers a try,
>> setup your xorg file to only point to the ati card on bus 22:00 and do not
>> setup a device for the Intel card. See if that still complains about
>> PowerExpress not supported on A+I systems.
>
> I tried that. Didn't work, because the fglrx driver recognise that there is
> a intel driver already loaded. Even it isn't setuped in xorg.conf

I wonder what would happen if you'd blacklist the intel modules and
prevent them from loading..