Disabling Intel GPU in the Z68MA-ED55

From what I have seen so far in the BIOS (v10.3), there seems to be no way to completely deactivate the Intel GPU on my i5-2500 with this motherboard. Am I missing something here, is this feature perhaps planned in a future BIOS release, or is this type of functionality impossible under the z68 chipset?

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I'm hoping a firmware developer can chime in here and provide some clarification on this
That may be a possibility. Perhaps you want to open a ticket with MSI technical and pose that question. >>How to contact MSI.<<

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[ 12079.805] (II) intel(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
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[ 12079.805] (**) intel(0): Framebuffer tiled
[ 12079.805] (**) intel(0): Pixmaps tiled
[ 12079.805] (**) intel(0): 3D buffers tiled
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Quote from: Blender;113072
Hi Nomko
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Last edited by garnerlogan65 (2015-05-24 12:32:26)

Hy there,
you can try it with this entry (gfxcardstatus) in the wiki if and only if you have OS X on a bootable device!
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBookPro10,x
I did that on my MBP early 2011 with the defekt AMD / ATI card and it works great!
BUT ATTENTION you need the 2.2.1 Version of that program!!!!!
Earlyer or later versions WONT work!!!
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Hope that helps in the first place (i know it is quick and dirty....but it works)
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comes from the ubuntu wiki: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Hybri … switcheroo
Let us know how it works
SunBey
Last edited by SunBey (2015-05-24 09:19:48)

Error when running Stellarium with Intel GPU

I'm trying to run Stellarium on a 2009 desktop computer with an Intel GPU, but I get the following error message:
Your OpenGL subsystem has problems. See log for details. Ignore and suppress this notice in the future and try to continue in degraded mode anyway?
This is the log file:
2015-02-02T20:03:51
Linux version 3.18.4-1-ARCH (builduser@tobias) (gcc version 4.9.2 20141224 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 27 20:45:02 CET 2015
Compiled using GCC 4.9.2
Qt runtime version: 5.4.0
Qt compilation version: 5.4.0
Addressing mode: 64-bit
MemTotal: 8101092 kB
MemFree: 154528 kB
MemAvailable: 4217808 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
cpu MHz : 2997.000
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
cpu MHz : 2997.000
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Kernel driver in use: i915
stellarium
[ This is Stellarium 0.13.2 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2014 Fabien Chereau et al ]
Writing log file to: "/home/fturco/.stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
0 . "/home/fturco/.stellarium"
1 . "/usr/share/stellarium"
Config file "/home/fturco/.stellarium/config.ini" does not exist. Copying the default file.
Config file is: "/home/fturco/.stellarium/config.ini"
Detected: OpenGL "2.1"
Driver version string: "2.1 Mesa 10.4.3"
GL vendor is "Intel Open Source Technology Center"
GL renderer is "Mesa DRI Intel(R) Q35 "
GL Shading Language version is "1.20"
MESA Version Number after parsing: 10.4
Mesa version is fine, we should not see a graphics problem.
GLSL Version Number after parsing: 1.2
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You can try to run in an unsupported degraded mode by ignoring the warning and continuing.
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Aborting due to OpenGL/GLSL version problems.
I'm using xf86-video-intel version 2.99.917-1 at the moment.
$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
I also get extremely slow performances when running 3D game Xonotic, but I don't know if it's due to the same problem. Any suggestion?

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