On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:34:06 +0100 Gianluca Cecchi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > I have an Asus laptop, model U36SD with Nvidia optimus technlogy. > My system has now Fedora 16 with kernel 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 > $ lspci -vnnn|grep VGA > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd > Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller > [8086:0126] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation > Device [10de:1050] (rev ff) (prog-if ff) > > At the moment, not being able to use optimus technology I compiled > acpi_call (from 24/06/11) for my kernel and set this in > /etc/rc.d/rc.local > /sbin/modprobe acpi_call > echo '\_SB.PCI0.PEG0.GFX0.DOFF' > /proc/acpi/call > > Also, due to some video problems for which I don't know if a > possible con-cause could be both nouveau and i915 kernel modules > loaded, I put in my grub.conf settings so that > $ cat /proc/cmdline > BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 > root=UUID=ce058d6c-d2ed-49e5-9869-965799f246a5 ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 > rd.dm=0 KEYTABLE=us quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb rd.luks=0 > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 elevator=deadline > nouveau.nomodeset=0 > > $ sudo lsmod|grep nouve > $ sudo lsmod|grep i915 > i915 389156 3 > drm_kms_helper 26490 1 i915 > drm 194532 5 ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper > i2c_algo_bit 4958 1 i915 > i2c_core 25728 6 > videodev,i2c_i801,i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit > video 12388 1 i915 > > Is this correct approach at the moment? Anything to test in > Optimus direction and to help nouveau? Are you sure there is anything to test with Optimus? I haven't heard of any huge progress. Do you know how your outputs are wired, and do you have a hw mux? http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Optimus -- Pekka Paalanen http://www.iki.fi/pq/ _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
