Re: Satellite P870 issues

2012-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 12. September 2012 schrieb lee: > You don't really need to switch cards when on the console, I guess :) > You can, and you don't get any output on the screen. > > Everything works fine with the intel card unless you want to play > games. Its performance for that is pathetic at best, t

Re: Satellite P870 issues - Video + ethernet [SOLVED]

2012-09-19 Thread Julian DeMarchi
On 09/17/2012 10:41 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > Is the GT630M not supported? Yes it is supported. The methods I found for trying to switch did not work. What I tried was to blacklist the i915 driver, load the nvidia driver with the modeset=1 option. --julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Satellite P870 issues - Video + ethernet [SOLVED]

2012-09-17 Thread Pertti Kosunen
On 13.9.2012 1:53, Julian DeMarchi wrote: I still can't use the nvidia card, but I think these features will come with time. Patience... :-) https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch Did you try manual switching with Bumblebee? Nvidia-glx or nouveau driver? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Satellite P870 issues - Video + ethernet [SOLVED]

2012-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 08:53:21AM +1000, Julian DeMarchi wrote: > > I still can't use the nvidia card, but I think these features will come > with time. Patience... :-) Is the GT630M not supported? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppress

Re: Satellite P870 issues - Video + ethernet [SOLVED]

2012-09-13 Thread lee
Julian DeMarchi writes: > On 09/13/2012 04:12 AM, lee wrote: >> Everything works fine with the intel card unless you want to play games. >> Its performance for that is pathetic at best, though even that works. >> >> >> Other than that, it's only a pointer for the OP so he has an idea of >> what

Re: Satellite P870 issues - Video + ethernet [SOLVED]

2012-09-12 Thread Julian DeMarchi
On 09/13/2012 04:12 AM, lee wrote: > Everything works fine with the intel card unless you want to play games. > Its performance for that is pathetic at best, though even that works. > > > Other than that, it's only a pointer for the OP so he has an idea of > what he needs to look for and what he

Re: Satellite P870 issues

2012-09-12 Thread lee
Chris Bannister writes: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 06:48:33PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Julian De Marchi writes: >> >> > My major issue is the video devices. They are apparently a switchable >> > "type", so you have the choice to use either the intel or nvidia >> > GPUs. >> >> You might be out of lu

Re: Satellite P870 issues

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 06:48:33PM +0200, lee wrote: > Julian De Marchi writes: > > > My major issue is the video devices. They are apparently a switchable > > "type", so you have the choice to use either the intel or nvidia > > GPUs. > > You might be out of luck depending on what hardware is in

Re: Satellite P870 issues

2012-09-11 Thread lee
Julian De Marchi writes: > My major issue is the video devices. They are apparently a switchable > "type", so you have the choice to use either the intel or nvidia > GPUs. You might be out of luck depending on what hardware is in your laptop. Google for "muxless"; if your laptop is muxless, swit

Satellite P870 issues

2012-09-11 Thread Julian De Marchi
heya-- Long time no post, please be nice. :-) I've recently had a stolen laptop replaced with a Toshiba Satellite P870[0]. I currently have debian wheezy 64bit installed, but am having issues getting some hardware to work. The kernel I'm currently running is 3.4.0-10.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 from