Need Support For Latest Hardware?

[Jatin K]

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 ???

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