I forgot to answer your question as to which intel driver is being
loaded. I ran lspci and grepped for intel and the result is below.
It's a very vague "vga" reference, but according to Intel, the core i7
processor has integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics, if that helps at all.
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor
Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core
Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core
Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset
Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family USB
Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI
Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI
Express Root Port 2 (rev b5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI
Express Root Port 4 (rev b5)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI
Express Root Port 5 (rev b5)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI
Express Root Port 6 (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family USB
Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM67 Express Chipset Family LPC
Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family 4 port
SATA IDE Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family SMBus
Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family 2 port
SATA IDE Controller (rev 05)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1030
(rev 34)
On 09/11/2011 01:10 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
On 11/09/11 18:39, Chris Pemberton wrote:
Some good info over at the archlinux forums:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=881549
http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/
To test the nvidia driver: blacklist the nouveau and intel graphic
modules, disable kernel mode-setting, and boot to runlevel 3 (all via
the kernel command line args below). Then run nvidia's xorg creation
tool (nvidia-xconfig). Give X a try and see if it works.
nouveau.disable=1 intel.disable=1 nomodeset 3 <--append this to grub
kernel line
The elrepo.org kmod-nvidia package already disables nouveau
mode-setting (nouveau.modeset=0), blacklists the nouveau driver and
runs nvidia-xconfig to create a suitable xorg.conf file.
Perhaps in the case of these hybrid systems we also need to blacklist
the Intel driver too as suggested above. Do we know which Intel driver
is being loaded?
Once you have worked out what works for you through testing, you
should file a bug at http://elrepo.org/bugs/ and we can get these
fixes incorporated into the package.
If that wont work, black list nouveau and nvidia, and try the intel
module (delete the xorg.conf made by nvidia-xconfig)
nouveau.disable=1 nomodeset 3 <-- append this to grub kernel line
Hope that helps.
Chris
