so sad :( i wanted to do some cuda work in MATLAB under Ubuntu but that's
out i guess...

i really dont look forward to using windows!

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Nathan Hourt <nat.ho...@gmail.com> wrote:

> That's exactly what I said, but I guess there's nothing for it but to wait.
> I enabled 3D under the intel chip, but I still want the nvidia card I paid
> for. My guess is we'll never see the proprietary drivers working at all,
> though, so until we get 3D and video decoding support etc in nouveau, those
> are probably a loss. :(
>  On Nov 26, 2010 8:38 AM, "Eshwar Venkanna Andhavarapu" <esh...@live.co.za>
> wrote:
> > but thing is i want only the discrete card if the switching stuff doesn't
> > work :( with the intel one i can't enable any of the desktop effects, use
> > vdpau for video, etc.
> >
> > so much for this optimus/hybrid graphics rubbish. its a pain in linux
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Nathan Hourt <nat.ho...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> You might try putting acpi_osi=Linux on your kernel commandline. On my
> >> laptop (Asus K52Jc), that causes the BIOS to disable the discrete
> graphics
> >> card entirely, lspci doesn't even list it anymore. Unfortunately, that
> means
> >> it's totally unusable until you boot without that option, but at least
> it
> >> doesn't take any power.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Nathan Hourt
> >>
>
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