Re: nvidia/nouveau problems

Per Bothner wrote: > I'm hoping someone can reverse engineer at least how to disable nvidia. Looks like you are in luck. People have started to reverse engineer it and have made some progress towards an easy-to-use tool[1] to switch between cards. [1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.

Re: nvidia/nouveau problems

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 13:12, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:21, Per Bothner wrote: > >> On 04/20/2011 10:00 AM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: >> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:14, Per Bothner > > > wrote: >> > >> > I did try hard to get a laptop with

Re: nvidia/nouveau problems

On 04/20/2011 10:33 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > Nothing you can do at the OS level is going to force the BIOS to present > the Intel adapter rather than the NVIDIA one, I don't think. What does > lspci show - both the NVIDIA and the Intel adapter, or just the Intel > one? lspic show: 01:00.0 VGA

Re: nvidia/nouveau problems

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:21, Per Bothner wrote: > On 04/20/2011 10:00 AM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:14, Per Bothner > > wrote: > > > > I did try hard to get a laptop with just integrated graphics, but > > they're > > very hard t

Re: nvidia/nouveau problems

On 04/20/2011 01:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> First I get this console message: >> mkdir: cannot create directory `/run': File exists > > This is known, and harmless (currently systemd tries to create /run when > it starts in case it doesn't exist in the filesystem, but F15's > filesystem

Re: nvidia/nouveau problems

On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 01:12 -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > I got a new Sandy Bridge i7 laptop with nvidia/optimus graphics. > I managed to install the new KDE beta, after a few problems. > However, there seems to be some issues with nouvaeu trying to > start up: One issue is errors messages and slowne

Re: nvidia/nouveau problems

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:00:19PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:14, Per Bothner wrote: > > > I did try hard to get a laptop with just integrated graphics, but they're > > very hard to find, especially once you get to mid/upper-end with i7 > > quad-core > > Sandy Bri

Re: nvidia/nouveau problems

On 04/20/2011 10:00 AM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:14, Per Bothner > wrote: > > I did try hard to get a laptop with just integrated graphics, but > they're > very hard to find, especially once you get to mid/upper-end with i7 > qua

Re: nvidia/nouveau problems

I followed the instructions here: http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/2010/07/using-acpicall-module-to-switch-onoff.html And they seemed to have worked - the laptop get now blessedly quiet, and the indicator light switched to indicate the integrated graphics. (The fan noise did come back afte

Re: nvidia/nouveau problems

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:14, Per Bothner wrote: > I did try hard to get a laptop with just integrated graphics, but they're > very hard to find, especially once you get to mid/upper-end with i7 > quad-core > Sandy Bridge. Most of them have nvidia/optimus. A few have ATI, which > would > of co

Re: nvidia/nouveau problems

On 04/20/2011 06:33 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Per Bothner wrote: >> My preference would be to just use integrated graphics, and >> completely disable the nvidia graphics. Unfortunately, there >> doesn't seem to be a way to do that from the BIOS, at least >> not the visible BIOS control sett

Re: nvidia/nouveau problems

Per Bothner wrote: > I got a new Sandy Bridge i7 laptop with nvidia/optimus graphics. > I managed to install the new KDE beta, after a few problems. > However, there seems to be some issues with nouvaeu trying to > start up: One issue is errors messages and slowness starting up: > [snip] > > My pre