[Nouveau] NVIDIA (including Optimus) laptop owners - please read!

[Gianluca Cecchi]

Hello,
I have an Asus U36SD with nvidia optimus technology.
OS is Fedora 15 + virt-preview repo. I have also win7 installed in
another partition.
I have the default nouveau drivers installed.
Here below some infos:

# lspci -vnnn|grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd
Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
[8086:0126] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device
[10de:1050] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])


# cd /sys/firmware/acpi/tables
# ll
total 0
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Oct  9 02:56 APIC
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Oct  9 02:56 ASF!
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Oct  9 02:56 DBGP
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Oct  9 02:56 DMAR
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Oct  9 02:56 DSDT
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct  9 02:56 dynamic
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Oct  9 02:56 ECDT
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Oct  9 02:56 FACP
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Oct  9 02:56 FACS
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Oct  9 02:56 HPET
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Oct  9 02:56 MCFG
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Oct  9 02:56 SLIC
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Oct  9 02:56 SSDT1
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Oct  9 02:56 SSDT2
# grep MXMS *
#

# modprobe i2c-dev
# i2cdetect -l
i2c-0	i2c       	i915 gmbus disabled             	I2C adapter
i2c-1	i2c       	i915 gmbus ssc                  	I2C adapter
i2c-2	i2c       	i915 GPIOB                      	I2C adapter
i2c-3	i2c       	i915 gmbus vga                  	I2C adapter
i2c-4	i2c       	i915 GPIOA                      	I2C adapter
i2c-5	i2c       	i915 gmbus panel                	I2C adapter
i2c-6	i2c       	i915 GPIOC                      	I2C adapter
i2c-7	i2c       	i915 gmbus dpc                  	I2C adapter
i2c-8	i2c       	i915 GPIOD                      	I2C adapter
i2c-9	i2c       	i915 gmbus dpb                  	I2C adapter
i2c-10	i2c       	i915 GPIOE                      	I2C adapter
i2c-11	i2c       	i915 gmbus reserved             	I2C adapter
i2c-12	i2c       	i915 gmbus dpd                  	I2C adapter
i2c-13	i2c       	i915 GPIOF                      	I2C adapter
i2c-14	i2c       	DPDDC-C                         	I2C adapter
i2c-15	smbus     	SMBus I801 adapter at e040      	SMBus adapter

# lsmod|grep nou
nouveau               545674  0
ttm                    55273  1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper         26474  2 nouveau,i915
drm                   193955  6 nouveau,i915,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit            5006  2 nouveau,i915
i2c_core               25712  8
i2c_dev,videodev,i2c_i801,nouveau,i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
mxm_wmi                 1727  1 nouveau
video                  12340  2 nouveau,i915

# cat /proc/cmdline
ro root=UUID=10146a5d-4ae1-4fe0-87a5-691c8121c7dc rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM
rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet

Let me know if you need further info.

Gianluca