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[Philipp Blanke <philipp.blanke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Craig,

from your dmesg, line 847: [   15.039104] sony_laptop: Speed/stamina
switch: stamina.

This means, nvidia card is switched off, since nvidia is only active
in SPEED mode. Do a

lspci | grep VGA

to be sure. Only one card (intel) should be listed. To get nvidia
working, you have to start a script at startup that switches between
intel and nvidia drivers according to the setting of the switch. If
intel card is on bus number 00:02.0, you can do something like

lspci | grep -q "00:02.0"
if [$? -eq 0 ]; then
    # setup intel
else
   # setup nvidia
fi

But I don't know how difficult it is to install Intel and Nvidia
display drivers side-by-side on Ubuntu.

Regards,
Philipp

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Craig S. Blackie
<craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Well in my attempt to get switching graphics workings, I'm not in a situation where I get dropped to shell and have to type lightdm to get X up and running.
> I've installed and removed all of nvidia. Tried reinstalling the intel modules. Still get dropped to the shell.
> The nvidia drivers to not pick up the graphics card.
>
> Here is my current dmesg:
>
> http://pastebin.com/XGhZLTNd
>
>
>
> On 26/02/12 05:40, Norbert Preining wrote:
>>
>> On So, 26 Feb 2012, Craig S. Blackie wrote:
>>>
>>> Well I fixed it by installing nvidia-current, breaking my system
>>> completely then uninstalling nvidia-current.
>>> No idea what happened there.
>>
>> I don't know what you are talking about concerning nvidia-current and
>> not.
>>
>> The point is that you have to disable nouveau.
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Norbert
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Norbert Preining            preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
>> JAIST, Japan                                 TeX Live&  Debian Developer
>>
>> DSA: 0x09C5B094   fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76  A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> THROCKING (participial vb.)
>> The action of continually pushing down the lever on a pop-up toaster
>> in the hope that you will thereby get it to understand that you want
>> it to toast something. Also: a style of drum-playing favoured by Nigel
>> Olsson of the Elton John Band, reminiscent of the sound of someone
>> slapping a frankfurter against a bucket. An excellent example of this
>> is to be heard on 'Someone Save My Life Tonight' from the album
>> Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
>>                        --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff
>
>
>
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