El dom, 01-05-2011 a las 12:13 +1000, Pigeon escribió: > Hi Florian, > > > i recently bought a laptop (msi cx640) using nvidia optimus > > unknowingly, that it was pretty unusable to me on linux. > > however i found a (rather dirty) hack to be able to at least use my > > nvidia graphics card, so that i dont have to throw my laptop into the > > trashbin. > > I've been experimenting the same kind of approach by using vnc > (x11vnc + vncviewer). I'm running two X servers on the same host, one > intel and one nvidia. I have to force the two X servers to be on the > same vt to trick both X to "render" at the same time, rather dirty too. > > Performance isn't great as expected. I got quite a lot of > tearing when I was testing with some GL apps/games. But it's usable at > least. > > I haven't tried your windump app yet. I believe you can get > some performance gain by using the Xdamage protocol, which x11vnc uses > by default. Though I'm not an X expert either. > > This is on an Alienware M11x-R2 btw. > > > Pigeon.
Small steps for you... big ones for hybrid graphics I think :) -- Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ 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
