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On 07/05/2011 08:36 AM, 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.
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In think you are running into this:
<http://askubuntu.com/questions/46065/problems-with-nvidia-drivers-on-dell-xps>

You might check out bumblebee & these links:
https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux
http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/