Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:06:54 +0200
From: Heinz Diehl <htd@fritha.org>
To: =?utf-8?B?UGF3ZcWC?= Sikora <pawel.sikora@agmk.net>
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).
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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.

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

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