Re: Lenovo T530 continuuing
On 04/12/12 20:51, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2012-12-04 20:28 +0100, Erwan David wrote:
>
>> Continuing with my new T530.
>> I now have double boot (in legacy mode)
>> laptop has 2 cards : integrated intel which cannot address my external
>> DVI monitor on docking station and nvidia which can.
>>
>> WIth optimus technology.
> That's bad, if there is no way to disable one of the GPUs in the BIOS
> you will not have much fun I'm afraid.
I can choose in Bios Integrated Intel, Nvidia or Optimus.
>> However the nouveau driver in wheezy does not work with this card, I get
>> messages like
>> nouveau [drm] cannot address i2c port 51
>>
>> (port number varies)
>>
>> If I select in BIOS to only use the nvidia, wheezy does not even boot.
>>
>> Is there a way to get a newer nouveau driver,
> Use the 3.6 kernel from experimental. As for the nouveau X driver, the
> version in experimental would support optimus if it were built for
> Xserver 1.13 -- which is not available in Debian, you have to build it
> (and the necessary input and video drivers) yourself.
Quite a big work...
>
>> or should I try nvidia
>> propriétary driver ? (then trying bumblebee, but I think a prerequisite
>> is that the nvidia card simply works).
> Probably the best bet currently.
>
> Cheers,
> Sven
>
>
That's the way I choose, with nvidia-kernel-dkms, and choosing to always
use the nvidia everything works. I'll try bumblebee later.
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