Call for community testers for intel driver

Jin, Gordon gordon.jin at intel.com
Sat Jan 19 04:59:51 PST 2008


Jesse Barnes wrote on Saturday, January 19, 2008 1:12 AM:
> On Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:39 pm Chris Pemberton wrote:
>> Laptop:
>> 945GM
>> Lenovo 3000 N100
>> 1280x800 LVDS
>> VGA port and standard multisync monitor
>> S-Video
>> Ubuntu 7.10
>> 
>> Desktop:
>> I have a brand spanking new Intel DG33TL MB with on-board graphics;
>> but I've added a nVidia pci-e card to make my life "much" easier. 
>> Is there some way I can help without removing the nVidia card?
>> Specs:  http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DG33TL/index.htm
>> 
>> Keep up the great work.
> 
> Yeah, I think the BIOS will let you switch between builtin and PCIe
> gfx.  So you should be able to build & test the latest Intel driver,
> then just change your xorg.conf back to nvidia, reboot and change the
> BIOS setting and be done with it.

Emm, BIOS is supposed to be able to switch like that. But I've seen some
cases that the BIOS setting doesn't really effect, i.e. the built-in gfx
always ignored.

Good luck!

-Gordon



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