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nvidia-detect_319.17-1 (from Debian experimental)
ddm_0.7.5
Intel driver I have is
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nvidia-detect_319.17-1 (from Debian experimental)
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06-06-2013 03:24:13 ati.getATI INFO Intel card found: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
06-06-2013 03:24:13 drivers.DriverGet DEBUG Initialize DriverGet
06-06-2013 03:24:14 drivers.DriverGet DEBUG Initialize DriverGet
06-06-2013 03:24:14 ati.getATI INFO ATI card found: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mars [Radeon HD 8730M]
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06-06-2013 03:24:15 drivers.getPackageStatus DEBUG Package not installed: fglrx-driver
06-06-2013 03:24:16 ati.getATI INFO ATI driver found: fglrx-driver (notinstalled)
06-06-2013 03:24:16 intel.getIntel INFO Intel driver found: xserver-xorg-video-intel (installed)
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inxi -Gx
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06-06-2013 03:24:27 self.treeview.fillTreeview DEBUG Add data to list store: liststore.append([False, "fglrx-driver", "1:12-6+point-1", "ATI display driver (recommended)", "ati", 400, 10000])
it doesn't work in this kind of setup but specially this was not the recommended driver before.4. device driver manager now shows driver for my ATI/AMDI HD 8730M (installation went ok, didn't work after the reboot)
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lspci -nn | grep VGA
the most common dual-gpu cardsSchoelje wrote:(are there any Nvidia/Intel cards, or is it only AMD/Intel?)
I can't speak for Intel/ATI, but with Intel/Nvidia (Optimus) they generally do nothing. I have yet to use a distribution that automatically configures bumblebee for me (Mint doesn't, Ubuntu doesn't, Debian doesn't, etc). They just default to the Intel graphics card (but both are on at the same time, so it uses quite a bit of power and my laptop can get quite hot).MAYBL8 wrote:I don't know much about this but, How to other linux distributions handle these dual video cards?
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Graphics: Card-1 Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Mars [Radeon HD 8730M] X.Org 1.12.4 Res: 1366x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile GLX Version 3.0 Mesa 8.0.5 Direct Rendering Yes
I was not after the solution for switchable graphics. I'll be happy with DDM correctly knowing Intel.it doesn't work in this kind of setup but specially this was not the recommended driver before.
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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mars [Radeon HD 8730M] [1002:6601]
I think it is the way sgfxi is doing. (I do not know the underlying working mechanism of DDM).To prevent breakage of the system, only one can be selected for the above mentioned reason.
until now ddm installed intel as you can see in the last line of the inxi outputtwnaing wrote:I was not after the solution for switchable graphics. I'll be happy with DDM correctly knowing Intel.
what is strange (and is what brings you here) is that something changed lately and the recommended driver is now fglrx.GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile GLX Version 3.0 Mesa 8.0.5 Direct Rendering Yes
from july's UP on it could even work in ddmcwwgateway wrote:For NVIDIA/Intel cards, the solution is basically to run sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia primus and then to run sudo adduser USER bumblebee (this doesn't work yet, but it will for the next UP, which should finish synchronizing today).
bumblebee is a funny beastcwwgateway wrote:For NVIDIA/Intel cards, the solution is basically to run sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia primus and then to run sudo adduser USER bumblebee
You're hired!zerozero wrote: if
lspci -nn | grep VGA
card 1 intel
card 2 nvidia
then
bumblebee option![]()
looks so easy
Yes. I'm not sure what packages make up the intel driver (they're already installed), but to install the nvidia driver and bumblebee you install the packages bumblebee, primus, and bumblebee-nvidia (bumblebee-nvidia depends on the nvidia drivers).Schoelje wrote: I suppose the Nvidia/intel cards need the Nvidia driver (nvidia-glx), AND the Intel driver, AND the bumblebee stuff.
Is that correct?
This works for me I think:zerozero wrote:so (for someone that knows zero of coding)
if
lspci -nn | grep VGA
card 1 intel
card 2 nvidia
then
bumblebee option
looks so easy
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christopher@chris-laptop:~/Downloads$ lspci -nn | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 540M] [10de:0df4] (rev ff)
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sudo apt-get install -y bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia primus
sudo adduser bumblebee christopher
This is also how optimus works on windows (you have to left click something, go to "run with graphics processor" and choose nvidia). The bigger benefit of bumblebee is it saves power because both don't run at the same time unless explicitly told to do so. On a machine without bumblebee, both cards are always on, but you can only use the intel one. If you have bumblebee, then the NVIDIA card is off unless explicitly told to be on. Even when both are on with bumblebee, the computer temperature is much lower than without bumblebee.zerozero wrote: bumblebee is a funny beast(cww will correct me if i'm wrong here, because i don't own one of those thingies
) it installs the nvidia driver (hence the install bumblebee-nvidia) so that it can defaults to intel in normal usage and only load nvidia when explicitly called with optirun <app>
Looking forward to itSchoelje wrote:Great, cww, that'll get me started, but it's going to take a while before we can start testing...a bit busy with other things.
Schoelje wrote:but it's going to take a while before we can start testing
Schoelje wrote:I need to know how the primus driver is loaded.
The intel drivers are always loaded. The intel graphics card is used to display everything except the program specifically displayed using the nvidia drivers.Schoelje wrote:@cww
Unfortunately, you had the Intel drivers loaded.
I'm looking in the xorg log files for a line with these words: "Depth" and "framebuffer".
The line in your log files indicate it's Intel: intel(0)
Could you switch to ATI, reboot, and send me the log files again?
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