On Tuesday 05 July 2011 08:38 PM, Navdeep Singh Sidhu wrote: > As i wrote my problem some weeks ago, that Fedora 15 or any other > linux version didn't run on my Laptop.I got two problems:- > 1. My screen goes Black on booting Linux. > 2.I got Intel error with following message > > - Dropping to debug shell. > > sh: can't access tty: job control turned off > > dracut:/# > > > > I can run any game or softwares on my system using windows. I'm > possessed with Linux,but i can't use Linux on my system. > I have contacted Dell technical support for help regarding this > problem. They told me that there will be no option in BIOS to disable > one of my graphics card. So the problem remains same. They told me > that nVIDIA is primary graphics card in my laptop & Intel HD3000 is > secondary graphics card. And also as i'm using i-7 processor that > support's some kind of architecture that has to use both of graphics > card & i can't disable any of them. in short, they said that my > laptop's hardware architecture supports only both card option & i > can't disable any of them. But i don't believe them, there is no such > architecture in which we can't disable one of the graphics card. > Hardware manu. companies designs motherboard in such way that if one > of graphics card fails (like let nVidia fails in most of the > cases)then automatically it switches to inbuilt VGA (Intel HD 3000) or > secondry vga. I'm not sure about my statement but i think so. > > But if they are true, then this means any of linux distro can't > support my hardware. So we have to design such kernel that supports > all the hardwares & architectures. Can we design this kind of kernel? > it doesn't matters what the problem is, may be it is nvidia's optimus > drivers that they have not given to add in Linux kernel or any > architecture problem that is not supported by Linux. the main thing is > that Linux Doesn't have solution for both problem. It applies to all > Distros. So can open source programmers design such kernel or not ? Or > i haave to wait for next 10 years to use Linux on my Laptop. > > Regards, > Navdeep Singh Have you tried to blacklist one of the card ??? -- °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Jatin Khatri Registerd Linux user No #501175 www.counter.li.org No M$ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
