yeah, sorry for the delay. My old T420s works pretty good these days, running on ubuntu 13.10 now with 3.11 kernel and tested booting the discrete gpu with it, all fine (NVD9 here though). Acceleration seems to be enabled as well :)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1075050 Title: [Dell E6530] Precise installer can't boot to desktop without "nomodeset" Status in The Linux Kernel: Fix Released Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “linux” source package in Precise: Won't Fix Bug description: cid: 201201-10339 Quantal installer works fine. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: linux-image (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24. ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12 Architecture: amd64 ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: ubuntu 3440 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: ubuntu 3440 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: ubuntu 3440 F...m pulseaudio Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7730000 irq 47' Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD93BXX' Components : 'HDA:111d76df,10280535,00100203 HDA:14f12c06,14f1000f,00100000' Controls : 19 Simple ctrls : 10 Card1.Amixer.info: Card hw:1 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xf6080000 irq 17' Mixer name : 'Nvidia GPU 14 HDMI/DP' Components : 'HDA:10de0014,10de0101,00100100' Controls : 24 Simple ctrls : 4 CasperVersion: 1.315 Date: Mon Nov 5 06:37:08 2012 LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1) MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6530 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcFB: ProcKernelCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/username.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- nomodeset RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-3.2.0-29-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-3.2.0-29-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.79 SourcePackage: linux StagingDrivers: mei UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 09/19/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A06 dmi.board.name: 07Y85M dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: X03 dmi.chassis.type: 9 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd09/19/2012:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6530:pvr01:rvnDellInc.:rn07Y85M:rvrX03:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr: dmi.product.name: Latitude E6530 dmi.product.version: 01 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/1075050/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
