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video card NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [ION 2]
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model: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [ION 2](model id: 1474)
possible other names of the device:
Optimus
vendor:
NVIDIA Corporation
VendorID:ProductID code of the device:
10de:0a76
year of commercialization:
2009
interface:
not-specified
tested on:
Trisquel 6.0 Toutatis
tested with the following kernel libre:
3.13.0-34-generic
how does it work with free software?
it does not work
free driver used:
nouveau
Description:
Integrated graphics
This entry is coming from a ASUS Eee PC 1215n, which uses two graphics controllers.
Nvidia Optimus ION2
Primary graphics card doesn't work* (i.e. ION2). The secondary one (Integrated Graphics Controller) functions, but without 3d acceleration: 
 $ lspci -vmmnn
VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [ION 2] [10de:0a76] (rev a2)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8446]
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a001] (rev 02)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8446]
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

* Although ION2 doesn't work, it will remain switched on and unecessarily heat the system and drain the battery. This can apparently be fixed by switching off the ION2-hardware using acpi_call at github.

More about NVIDIA ION2 Optimus Technology at wikipedia and asus.com

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