Well if its just hd movies, your processor/intel graphics combo should sort it out. but like you said, for other uses that require the nvidia it is a bit of a problem. ok what i do know is if you use the open source nouveau drivers, you can get acceleration out of the intel card. but with the nvidia proprietary drivers, they'd work only if the graphics has sort of been switched to the nvidia side in windows. Well that's what i have from experience. it sounds absurd but thats how it worked for me. i made sure the optimus drivers are not installed on the windows side. somehow that seems to leave the graphics on the nvidia side. and then in linux its straightforward from there.
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Pierre Equoy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I just bought an Asus N53Jf (because it was nVidia based and I thought > it was reliable...), and now I'm stuck with using Intel basic chipset > on Ubuntu! > > To be honest, I don't care about Optimus, I don't care about being > able to switch from one chipset to another: I just want to be able to > use the nVidia GPU instead of the Intel's one (mainly to play HD > films). > > Do you know if there is any way to deactivate the Intel chip, so that > I can install nVidia drivers on Ubuntu and use nVidia as main graphic > card/GPU? > I had a look in the bios and I cannot find such an option. > > On your main page you say "Only specific laptop models are able to > switch to pre-Windows7 "compatible" BIOS mode so that the OS can see > the nvidia graphics card. This is the only way to load the nvidia > binary drivers so far". I hope I can find a way to apply this to my > new laptop! > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > Pierre Equoy > > _______________________________________________ > 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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