Re: NVidia driver installation under UEFI+CSM mode

2013-11-06 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 22:51 +, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://bumblebee-project.org/&k=dsHy%2FVymniCD0osh6tze%2Fw%3D%3D%0A&r=6lbkzZQmkGgL7ITxCWNsIJwNXCdRDnxsPepTVOzWl24%3D%0A&m=3Qq%2B1AAJhQnjOt2h7xWd%2BDcnmbrne%2FqGqK2MjngD%2BG8%3D%0A&s=a2ea19ae2ab3

Re: NVidia driver installation under UEFI+CSM mode

2013-11-05 Thread WangWentao
It's actually a dual cards(intel+nvidia) problem. I know there are supports for optimus in newest kernel/xorg/nvidia . According to http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Optimus/, new kernel supports seamless switch between intel graphics driver and nouveau. About nvidia http://us.download.nvidia.

Re: NVidia driver installation under UEFI+CSM mode

2013-11-05 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 21:08 +0800, WangWentao wrote: > I have tried the repos version, but it doesn't work either. > > There is also an intel card along with nvidia card, so it supports optimus, > but I can't disable it in BIOS. > Just FYI, there is a pilot project to support Optimus here: htt

Re: NVidia driver installation under UEFI+CSM mode

2013-11-05 Thread WangWentao
I have tried the repos version, but it doesn't work either. There is also an intel card along with nvidia card, so it supports optimus, but I can't disable it in BIOS. I have tried a few methods: * specify BusID in xorg.conf * remove nouveau module(blacklist+dracut) * increase vmalloc

Re: NVidia driver installation under UEFI+CSM mode

2013-11-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/04/2013 11:33 AM, WangWentao wrote: However, I failed to install nvidia driver. After I installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86-319.60.run(no error), the X cannot be started until I restore open source driver. Using the binary blob from nVidia is probably the worst way to go. Not only does it mang

NVidia driver installation under UEFI+CSM mode

2013-11-04 Thread WangWentao
I got a HP dv4 5306tx laptop with the UEFI+CSM mode enabled, and succeeded in installation of fedora 18 i686. However, I failed to install nvidia driver. After I installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86-319.60.run(no error), the X cannot be started until I restore open source driver. I have no idea about