Up. I was wondering how the switching in done for ati GPU ? does this has to be done with the kernel or there is a possibility of having some independent trigger ? (like a call to a driver function or something similar)
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:29 PM, unstaff <[email protected]> wrote: > My problem right now is fairly simple I just want to use the nvidia gpu all > the time. > > So I would need to set it once when ubuntu boots. > > what is the simplest way to achieve this ? > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Albert Vilella <[email protected]>wrote: > >> ccing to the hybrid graphics mailing list >> >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:49 PM, ben <[email protected]> wrote: >> > hi all, >> > >> > after half a day of pain to get my gpu working on Lucid, I'm giving up. >> > I ran into this group and send this email as a last hope.... >> > >> > first let me give you my config : >> > >> > sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name >> > M11x >> > sudo dmidecode -s system-version >> > A01 >> > lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/' | grep VGA >> > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 >> > Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07) >> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device >> > [10de:0caf] (rev a2) >> > >> > I had to install the very last kernel and nvidia driver to at least get >> > gdm running in switching mode (M11x also has a driscrete mode that >> > disable nvidia GPU) >> > >> > uname -a >> > Linux lagr-laptop 2.6.34-020634rc6-generic #020634rc6 SMP Fri Apr 30 >> > 10:09:34 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux >> > >> > nvidia drivers : >> > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.24-pkg1.run >> > >> > now my xorg.conf looks like this : >> > >> > Section "Device" >> > Identifier "Device0" >> > Driver "nvidia" >> > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" >> > BusID "PCI:01:00:0" >> > EndSection >> > >> > Section "Device" >> > Identifier "Device1" >> > Driver "fbdev" >> > VendorName "Intel Mobile 4" >> > BusID "PCI:00:02:00" >> > EndSection >> > >> > Section "Screen" >> > Identifier "Screen0" >> > Device "Device1" >> > Monitor "Monitor0" >> > DefaultDepth 24 >> > Option "MultiGPU" "On" >> > SubSection "Display" >> > Depth 24 >> > EndSubSection >> > EndSection >> > >> > everything is fine as long as my Screen has Device1 not Device0, >> > >> > but no acces to the nvidia GPU, which is my ultimate goal. >> > >> > this only option I see is to recompile the kernel with switcheroo like >> > suggested here: >> > http://asusm51ta-with-linux.blogspot.com/ >> > >> > but since it's not for the same machine I have a felling it won;t work. >> > >> > any has some insight about this ? >> > >> > really what can I do ? >> > >> > thanks >> > >> > Ben >> > -- >> > This message was sent from Launchpad by the user >> > ben (https://launchpad.net/~unstaff) >> > using the "Contact this team" link on the Hybrid Graphics Linux >> > team page to each member directly. >> > For more information see >> > https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople >> > >> > >
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