Dnia niedziela 22 marzec 2009, Alexandre Kaspar napisaĆ: > Hi, > > I'm often using Nvidia card only for graphic computations. To be able > to use it, I'm turning acpi off (or mostly off). > Either you change your dsdt table and specify your not linux but > windows xp, or you add the option acpi=ht on the kernel so that the > switch won't be uninitialized at reboot. Oh that would bea relief, I will try it.
> Then you only need one boot > on windows or even on linux DSL (thanks for the tip !). I already tried to change DSDT table. It was fail. > I have installed the nvidia for netbook, as well as the nvidia general > driver. Both seem to work, but I get some problems in all cases. > Sometimes, the driver bugs and some part of the screen aren't well > displayed. Then you have to kill X and restart or reboot. > Despite of these problems, it works and I can work with it. > > However I would really appreciate to be able to work with acpi on > since it is important for the battery as well as for all things > related to acpi (lifetime, shutdown, hibernate, ...). Indeed. > The fact is that if both card are on, then the nvidia driver doesn't > work (for me). You need to get only one card running. If you have only > the nvidia card working, then X won't complain. Otherwise, it won't > work ! (for me) Yes. I tried to get only nvidia working, but It seems I am unable to do so. > Hoping there will be soon some way to make it working without turning > acpi off and without need to startup on windows or DSL. Same here. I hope it will be fixed, since it is very annoying. > Note : I'm on fedora. > > Have a nice week. Same for you. Regards. -- Zuzanna K. Filutowska Home page: http://platyna.platinum.linux.pl/. NIC-HDL: ZKF-RIPE, IRC nick: Platyna, Linux RU: #289909. Well? I will go far, As the echo of the devout bell goes. --Sarah Brightman _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series Post to : sony-vaio-z-series@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp