On 2012-12-04 20:28 +0100, Erwan David wrote:
> Continuing with my new T530.
> I now have double boot (in legacy mode)
> laptop has 2 cards : integrated intel which cannot address my external
> DVI monitor on docking station and nvidia which can.
>
> WIth optimus technology.
That's bad, if there is no way to disable one of the GPUs in the BIOS
you will not have much fun I'm afraid.
> However the nouveau driver in wheezy does not work with this card, I get
> messages like
> nouveau [drm] cannot address i2c port 51
>
> (port number varies)
>
> If I select in BIOS to only use the nvidia, wheezy does not even boot.
>
> Is there a way to get a newer nouveau driver,
Use the 3.6 kernel from experimental. As for the nouveau X driver, the
version in experimental would support optimus if it were built for
Xserver 1.13 -- which is not available in Debian, you have to build it
(and the necessary input and video drivers) yourself.
> or should I try nvidia
> propriétary driver ? (then trying bumblebee, but I think a prerequisite
> is that the nvidia card simply works).
Probably the best bet currently.
Cheers,
Sven
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