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Installation of ironhide in an Asus U33JC #196

Open jjavierr opened 12 years ago

jjavierr commented 12 years ago

Hello All,

I've been collecting information about how to install ironhide so this is not really an issue but hopefully a way to avoid it. As I have not found consistency out there on how to install it, find below a sequence of steps that I have put together from different sources. Hopefully I'm not too wrong. Any comment or help will be highly appreciated.

  1. Backup Xorg.conf files
  2. switch the boot vga controler in the BIOS from windows7/vista to others
  3. sudo apt-get remove bumblebee. (I have not installed bumblebee wo I guess this is not required)
  4. reboot
  5. sudo apt-get install mesa-utils (is that really required??)
  6. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mj-casalogic/ironhide
  7. sudo apt-get update
  8. sudo apt-get install ironhide (I have also found "sudo apt-get install ironhide ironhide-ui" as an option. Are both the same thing?
  9. apt-get install dialog. I found this in issue #9, don't know if it is required.
  10. Reboot
  11. sudo ironhide-configuration

Thank you

Javier

jjavierr commented 12 years ago

So, this is what I finally did:

  1. Backup Xorg.conf files
  2. switch the boot vga controler in the BIOS from windows7/vista to others
  3. sudo apt-get remove bumblebee.
  4. reboot
  5. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mj-casalogic/ironhide
  6. sudo apt-get update
  7. sudo apt-get install ironhide ironhide-ui

after that the configuration process started. I selected the first option that appeared that was:

  1. ASUSTeK Computer Inc. U33jc by alex, Confirmed by 2 users.

After that I got the following message:

The BusID of the nVidia card can't be determined. You must correct this manually in /etc/x11/xorg.conf.nvidia. Please report this problem..

So this is what I'm doing, I guess this is the place.

For additional info, if I do: "optirun glxgears" this is what I get:

I would appreciate your help with that. If you require additional info, just let me know.

Regards,

Javier

skilambi commented 12 years ago

I have an lenovo ideapad y470 and i am getting the same problem. Were you able to figure this out?

skilambi

jjavierr commented 12 years ago

Hi skilambi. I believe I finally managed to get this running.

I went here:

http://www.ivegotavirus.com/blog/2011/09/01/how-to-set-up-intel-optimus-graphics-on-ubuntu-save-battery-life/

and I found this:

NOTE If you have any issues with Ironhide not detecting your card then you will need to open /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia and change: Option ConnectedMonitor CRT-0 to Option ConnectedMonitor DFP-0 or the other way round. Then run ironhide-configuration.

Therefore I did that and I put DFP-0 instead of what I found that was:

Option "ConnectedMonitor" "REPLACEWITHCONNECTEDMONITOR"

After that I could configure Ironhide.

That was not all though. What happened next is that I could not configure Apps but then I found

https://github.com/MrMEEE/ironhide/issues/115

https://github.com/MrMEEE/ironhide/issues/77

they say I should go to config.py and change

Also in Config.py, this line should be changed: user_relative_desktop_file_directory = '/' to user_relative_desktop_file_directory = '/.local/share/applications/'

Hope this helps,

Javier