On 12.09.2013 02:27, Lester M Petrie wrote: > After reading several articles on the nvidia Optimus and the problems > with having dual hardware, I realized that my machine had dual hardware > also. lspci | grep VGA gives > > 01:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED > Graphics Family (rev 10) > 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 > GT] (rev a2) > > I had noticed a considerable delay in booting when it came to the ast > module, so I decided to try and blacklist it. After trying several > different options, I found that putting 'modprobe.ast=blacklist' on the > kernel line succeeded. Booting takes about half the time, and nouveau > now opens the login screen. This doesn't solve the subject directly (I > haven't tried the nvidia driver with the blacklist), but it solves my > problem in that I can now boot all the way into graphical mode > successfully. > > Better ever than never. :) ASPEED folks call it an IRMP, Integrated Remote Management Processor. But reading the specs, it seems that the VGA part is capable of 2D. You can conclude yourself how it applies to modern desktop environment capable of 3D. Perhaps the better question is how these two devices interact, and whether is this particular combination of two devices properly supported. However, $(modinfo -F author ast) is your pal, http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel poma https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/Kconfig http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=747 http://vfamilyserver.org/blog/ http://www.aspeedtech.com/support.php -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
