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Hello
I do not use archlinux I use kubuntu 11.10 however I think this issue applies to all distributions!!
I had severe problems to get the intel graphics card to work on this laptop, it started up using VESA graphics it also ignored the Nvidia card.
This is a laptop that uses optimus technology, thus it uses the intel card for low performance and only power up the nvidia card then needed.
The solution to get it to start with the intel card was to add:
i915.modeset=1
To the kernel boot parameters.
Also to get the nvidia card to work I installed bumblebee.
There it was important to remove all xorg.conf files in /etc/X11 and /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
Also set the bumblebee config file to use nvidia and not nouveau.
Running a program with nvidia you run: optirun prog_name
Otherwise it uses the intel card, that also have opengl but not as good as the nvidia card.
Ok, hope this can save people from the week of googling and testing that I had to do.
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