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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES-CL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hello dear friends of the Linux Community!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>I’m forwarding this mail trough my Gmail account in case you miss the previous one (I didn’t get any replies so far)</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>My name is Felipe Ribba and I’m a Graphic Designer from Chile, South America, and a computer hardware enthusiast.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>You must know however, that I'm not a programmer nor developer, but I have some basic notions on how the hardware works and I'm always eager to learn more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I<span style='color:#1F497D'> (Necrum) </span>would love to know how to program drivers, modify os kernels, generate ACPI calls and such, but I just don't know (yet). I lack the knowledge and I would like to ask you a big favor...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>On behalf of the “Hackintosh” community at tonymacx86.com and insanelymac.com, I’m respectfully requesting you guys, if it's possible that you could give us a hand in any way, such as generating a “twin” project or a “spinoff” of the Linux Hybrid Graphics project, oriented improve the Optimus support for the OSX platform.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Most of our research, guesses and findings (which are not that much) can be found at <a href="http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=8446&start=0">http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=8446&start=0</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The creator of the topic, Minihack and a few more guys there had a lot more knowledge than me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I've also tried to contact Netkas (at netkas.org) with no luck yet, but I won't give up!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,792.0.html">http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,792.0.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I'm an owner of a Hybrid Dell Vostro 3700 (IntelHD + Nvidia GT 330m) so if you need me to test anything (settings, DSDT dumps, etc) I'll be glad to help in any way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thank you so much for your time, sorry for my bad English, and I hope to hear from you sometime soon! :)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yours truly<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Felipe Ribba E.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>