How to Disable NVidia Card ?

[Chaman Singh Verma]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Garry Burgess <grburgess at gmail.com> wrote:

> In Intrepid 8.10 go to: System>>Administration>>Hardware Drivers.
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> it will find your Nvidia driver and give you a chance to deactivate.
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> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Davide Corio <davide.corio at domsense.com>wrote:
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>> On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 16:59 +0530, Chaman Singh Verma wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > There are some problem with one of the Graphics card, and before I
>> > post the problems,
>> > I would like to disable Nvidia Card and would like to run the programs
>> > with MesaGL library
>> > with native graphics support on Intel Card.
>> >
>> > How can I disable the card without manually taking it out ?
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>> So, you have two graphic cards, one nvidia and one intel, right?
>> And, even if you don't use it, the nvidia causes problems?
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>> Usually, if a card is not connected to a display, xorg won't use it.
>> however, if that card gives you problems you can just try to uninstall
>> nvidia proprietary drivers (if any) and xserver-xorg-video-nv which
>> contains the open xorg driver (probably not necessary).
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>> Another possible way is to switch off the xorg autodetection by
>> specifying the intel driver into the "Device" section of xorg.org
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>> Davide Corio
>> email: davide.corio<at>domsense.com
>> web: http://www.domsense.com
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Perhaps this approach will not work. After deactivating I tried to run
glxgears and I get

csv610 at blackhole:~$ glxgears
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/tls/swrast_dri.so
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
csv610 at blackhole:~$




csv

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