I forgot to answer your question as to which intel driver is being 
loaded.  I ran lspci and grepped for intel and the result is below.  
It's a very vague "vga" reference, but according to Intel, the core i7 
processor has integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics, if that helps at all.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor 
Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core 
Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core 
Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset 
Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family USB 
Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family High 
Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI 
Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI 
Express Root Port 2 (rev b5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI 
Express Root Port 4 (rev b5)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI 
Express Root Port 5 (rev b5)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI 
Express Root Port 6 (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family USB 
Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM67 Express Chipset Family LPC 
Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family 4 port 
SATA IDE Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family SMBus 
Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family 2 port 
SATA IDE Controller (rev 05)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1030 
(rev 34)


On 09/11/2011 01:10 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 11/09/11 18:39, Chris Pemberton wrote:
>
>> Some good info over at the archlinux forums:
>>
>> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=881549
>>
>> http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/
>>
>> To test the nvidia driver: blacklist the nouveau and intel graphic
>> modules, disable kernel mode-setting, and boot to runlevel 3 (all via
>> the kernel command line args below). Then run nvidia's xorg creation
>> tool (nvidia-xconfig). Give X a try and see if it works.
>>
>> nouveau.disable=1 intel.disable=1 nomodeset 3 <--append this to grub
>> kernel line
>>
>
> The elrepo.org kmod-nvidia package already disables nouveau 
> mode-setting (nouveau.modeset=0), blacklists the nouveau driver and 
> runs nvidia-xconfig to create a suitable xorg.conf file.
>
> Perhaps in the case of these hybrid systems we also need to blacklist 
> the Intel driver too as suggested above. Do we know which Intel driver 
> is being loaded?
>
> Once you have worked out what works for you through testing, you 
> should file a bug at http://elrepo.org/bugs/ and we can get these 
> fixes incorporated into the package.
>
>> If that wont work, black list nouveau and nvidia, and try the intel
>> module (delete the xorg.conf made by nvidia-xconfig)
>>
>> nouveau.disable=1 nomodeset 3 <-- append this to grub kernel line
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Chris
>>