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[Craig Blackie <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Norbert,
I'm not intent on using nouveau, in fact I uninstalled it and did add it to
the blacklist!
I've always previously used the Intel card due to being unable to get the
switching to work properly.

If you have any suggestions I'll gladly try them!

Craig.
On Feb 26, 2012 12:11 AM, "Norbert Preining" <preining@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Craig,
>
> On Sa, 25 Feb 2012, Craig S. Blackie wrote:
> > Dmesg on freeze with switch set to stamina (will freeze on the 3rd
> > character typed):
> >
> > http://pastebin.com/NbF7NGQ8
>
> Ugg, as Vick said, why on earth are you using sony-laptop-zseries
> in combination with nouveau? That will *not* work as we see, since
> both a tricking around with the vide cards setup.
>
> You have to decide what you want: If you want the nvidia drivers,
> then use sony-laptop-zseries and blacklist nouveau, if you want
> to go for the bleeding edge but without nvidia3d, do not use
> noveau.
>
> I assume you will not have any problems when disabling either the nouveau
> driver or the changed sony-laptop module.
>
> Ahh, before you ask, to disable nouveau, add a file
>        /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf
> with one line
>        blacklist nouveau
>
> Norbert
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