Hi Christian, As far as I know, at the moment the NVidia card in the Optimus hybrid graphics does not work at all under linux. Nvidia proprietary driver does not work, same story for the nouveau driver.
I surely DO hope I am wrong, cause it's very annoying having to switch to windows every time I want to watch HD content :-/ Cheers, Jonas On 26 November 2010 15:59, Christian Mayer <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi, > > thanks for this group, since yesterday I'm also a victim of the hybrid > graphics (Dell Vostro 3700, i.e. Core i5 + nVidia) of which I didn't > know that I might suffer from before my buy... > > What is the current state of the hybrid graphics under Linux? > > I can find lots of ressources (like the > http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/) but no real solution nor a > road map towards it. > What I think I have understood is that the "DSDT ON/OFF" works for a few > - - but (and here I'm unsure if I got that right) it is only to disable > the extra graphic chip and to use only the "internal" one. > > My interest lies in the opposite: as the laptop is used as an desktop > replacement I don't care about power consumtion but I do want to use the > nVidia chip all the time (with the proprietary drivers...). > > Should I still look into the "DSDT ON/OFF" stuff? > > Or is this topic still a big mess and I need to wait a few months? > How can I help to improofe the situation? Still send a DSDT? > > Thanks, > Christian > > PS: I though I read somewhere that the VGA switcheroo comes with Ubuntu > 10.10 - but I can't find it. Did I do something wrong? > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEAREIAAYFAkzvy14ACgkQoWM1JLkHou2lLgCfTsdcWH5ajTr9u5iR6a01/Qw9 > KF0AniMUP2tj/amfubp/QyR61En3LCIW > =evVp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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