Slackware 14.0 graphics problems, nvidia, i915, nouveau
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Slackware 14.0 graphics problems, nvidia, i915, nouveau
Just a quick note to mention that if you have a nvidia graphics card and an intel i915 graphics chipset, then, like me, you may have problems with random crashes.
To fix this I installed xf86-video-nouveau-blacklist-noarch-1 and then installed the nvidia driver via the slackbuild, then I blacklisted i915, intel-agp and intel-gtt.
While this seems to have worked, I'm sure that I should have done something with lilo and append="nomodeset"
Also had a problem with ALSA not working properly. Used the same fix and blacklisted snd_hda_intel.
It would be useful if there were some way of selecting which piece of hardware to use. For example I have separate graphics card, sound card and network card, but the mother board also has onboard graphics, sound and network, and just to confuse the issue they have started putting graphics cards into CPU's.
Well, disabling the Intel chipset prevent laptops users to get a longer battery life - which is supposed to be the benefit expected from buying a laptop including switchable graphics.
In that field, clearly YMMV depending on your hardware, as a search for "switchable graphics" or "optimus" in this forum shows.
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 09-30-2012 at 05:14 AM.
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