I've been doing some test on my asus u36jc: 1- After the little hack you proposed us (to get the module asus-switcheroo successfully launched) I still can not rise the X with the nouveau driver, the screen remains black and I can do nothing. BUT! if I connect a screen through the HDMI that sreen boot with the nouveau driver! Although I still can't use the laptop screen...it's a progress!
2-I also try to use the nvidia's private driver, because the experience with nouveau is still very poor. after try i (a lot) it was a complete failure. After blacklist the nouveau driver and launch the asus-switch module as dummy (adding the line asus-switcher.dummy-client=1 to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and updating the initramfs) I got nothing 3- As you say, Fedora works perfect with a 3D desktop experience, but there are no luck with ubuntu natty. It seems the ubuntu team decided to exclude the gallium 3D of nouveau for stability reasons ( http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTM2Mw) thats all. If you need any log file I'll be glad to help you thanks again! On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Alex Williamson < alex.l.william...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:38 AM, Diego <diegoso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > firstable, many many thanks for make this module, I was waiting for > months > > to can use my nvidia card in linux > > I have ubuntu 11.04 beta, with the kernel 2.6.38, and I have a doub about > > when to launch the order "echo OFF > ..." or "echo DIS > ...", because if > I > > do for example a "echo DDIS > ..." and then I reboot de X, I only obtain > a > > black screen. > > If I lauch ubuntu in recovery mode, with no X up, and then I tray to > power > > off the intel card or change between then, the sreen freezes again and > > nothing happends > > I had no problems with the compilation part, and the > module asus-switcheroo > > starts any time I boot > > can you help me plz? > > I've been finding that with newer kernels, like the one in Ubuntu > 11.04 and Fedora 15, nouveau often isn't loading properly from the > initramfs. It will complain about finding an unsupported chipset. If > you unload it after boot and reload it loads ok, but something isn't > quite right with switcheroo then. What seems to work is to blacklist > nouveau so it doesn't get loaded in the initramfs, then load it during > the initscripts. To do this, try: > > 1) Add this line to /etc/modprobe.d/asus-switcheroo.conf: > blacklist nouveau > > 2) Add this line to /etc/modules: > nouveau > > 3) Remove the asus-switcheroo line from /etc/initramfs-tools/modules > > 4) Rebuild initramfs: update-initramfs -u -k `uname -r` > > 5) Reboot > > That works for me on ubuntu 11.04 on my ul30vt, though unity doesn't > want to run with nouveau. For Fedora 15, the equivalent instructions > are: > > 1) Add this line to /etc/modprobe.d/asus-switcheroo.conf: > blacklist nouveau > > 2) Create /etc/sysconfig/modules/asus-switcheroo.modules containing: > #!/bin/sh > modprobe nouveau > > 3) chmod 0755 /etc/sysconfig/modules/asus-switcheroo.modules > > 4) Remove asus-switcheroo from /etc/dracut.conf.d/asus-switcheroo.conf > > 5) Rebuild initramfs with: dracut -f /boot/initramfs-`uname -r`.img `uname > -r` > > 6) Reboot > > This also works for Fedora 14 and should maybe be how we set things up > by default. Fedora doesn't seem to have any trouble running gnome3 > with 3D support on nouveau after switching to DIS, so I'm not sure why > Ubuntu isn't working. Hope this helps, > > Alex >
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