From: "Paweł Sikora" <pawel.sikora@agmk.net>
To: Heinz Diehl <htd@fritha.org>
Cc: Martin Peres <martin.peres@labri.fr>,
Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
marcheu@chromium.org, Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>,
Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.7-rc1 (nouveau_bios_score oops).
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:51:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4392132.ui6koSANok@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121025180654.GA28920@fritha.org>
On Thursday 25 of October 2012 20:06:54 Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 25.10.2012, Paweł Sikora wrote:
>
> > what is the reason of loading nouveau driver for laptops
> > with nvidia optimus and enabling vga switcheroo
> > which doesn't work in such (optimus) cases.
>
> You can safely compile a kernel without nouveau, your Nvidia
> card will not be used at all since neither Linux nor the
> proprietary nvidia driver does support optimus at this time
> (and frankly, I won't buy any further machines with opticrap).
> So having nouveau compiled and loaded seems like a waste of ressources
> in this case.
i've bought this asus laptop mostly for a developer's workstation replacement
(quad-core-i7-avx cpu with integrated gpu, with 12GB ram and 2x500GB hdd).
nvidia's addon is an optional crap :)
> For me it's important to have nouveau working, because I try/use
> Bumblebee and optirun:
>
> http://bumblebee-project.org/
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee
i'll try to use transformers too :-)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-26 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-10-19 21:25 ` Linux 3.7-rc1 (nouveau_bios_score oops) Linus Torvalds
2012-10-19 22:41 ` Martin Peres
2012-10-19 22:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-20 9:26 ` Heinz Diehl
2012-10-20 9:40 ` Martin Peres
2012-10-20 10:42 ` Heinz Diehl
2012-10-20 20:28 ` Marcin Slusarz
2012-10-20 20:35 ` Marcin Slusarz
2012-10-20 21:20 ` Heinz Diehl
2012-10-20 21:42 ` Marcin Slusarz
2012-10-20 21:45 ` Marcin Slusarz
2012-10-21 8:54 ` Heinz Diehl
2012-10-20 22:19 ` Marcin Slusarz
2012-10-21 6:58 ` Paweł Sikora
2012-10-21 9:26 ` Heinz Diehl
2012-10-21 12:09 ` Marcin Slusarz
2012-10-21 13:31 ` Heinz Diehl
2012-10-21 14:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-21 14:49 ` Marcin Slusarz
2012-10-21 17:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-21 20:07 ` Lekensteyn
2012-10-22 0:07 ` Ben Skeggs
2012-10-25 17:53 ` Paweł Sikora
2012-10-25 18:06 ` Heinz Diehl
2012-10-26 19:51 ` Paweł Sikora [this message]
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