From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?B?UGF3ZcWC?= Sikora Subject: Re: Linux 3.7-rc1 (nouveau_bios_score oops). Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:51:37 +0200 Message-ID: <4392132.ui6koSANok@localhost> References: <1724445.dN2yMEzN6d@localhost> <2097113.JL2tUTAZjM@localhost> <20121025180654.GA28920@fritha.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20121025180654.GA28920@fritha.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Heinz Diehl Cc: Martin Peres , Heinz Diehl , Linus Torvalds , David Airlie , Ben Skeggs , Daniel Vetter , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcheu@chromium.org, Marcin Slusarz , Lekensteyn List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On Thursday 25 of October 2012 20:06:54 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 25.10.2012, Pawe=C5=82 Sikora wrote:=20 >=20 > > what is the reason of loading nouveau driver for laptops=20 > > with nvidia optimus and enabling vga switcheroo > > which doesn't work in such (optimus) cases. >=20 > You can safely compile a kernel without nouveau, your Nvidia=20 > card will not be used at all since neither Linux nor the=20 > 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 ressource= s > in this case. i've bought this asus laptop mostly for a developer's workstation repla= cement (quad-core-i7-avx cpu with integrated gpu, with 12GB ram and 2x500GB hd= d). nvidia's addon is an optional crap :) > For me it's important to have nouveau working, because I try/use > Bumblebee and optirun:=20 >=20 > http://bumblebee-project.org/ > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee i'll try to use transformers too :-)