Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966282Ab2JZTvq (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:51:46 -0400 Received: from mail.agmk.net ([91.192.224.71]:57048 "EHLO mail.agmk.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966247Ab2JZTvp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:51:45 -0400 From: =?utf-8?B?UGF3ZcWC?= Sikora 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 Subject: Re: Linux 3.7-rc1 (nouveau_bios_score oops). Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:51:37 +0200 Message-ID: <4392132.ui6koSANok@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.1 (Linux/3.7.0-rc2-00191-g2ab3f29; KDE/4.9.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20121025180654.GA28920@fritha.org> References: <1724445.dN2yMEzN6d@localhost> <2097113.JL2tUTAZjM@localhost> <20121025180654.GA28920@fritha.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1254 Lines: 31 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 :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/