I just went to attempt to test the HDMI port, however, it appears that it's driver dependent to switch the output as well. It's just an input button (FN + F1) that is not wired to anything.
James On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is something like this even currently doable? > > Short answer: No, it can't. > > I'm not an expert but as the time goes and we are able to test and > experiment with Optimus machines, we have found that: > - The Nvidia card is conected to the intel integrated and not to the > screen. > - There is no way to turn off integrated without losing the monitor. > - The only thing plugged directly to the Nvidia card is the HDMI port (I > cant test it, I don't have any HDMI capable hardware). > > Hope this can help you. The bumblebee project is the way to use it and > we are going to develop it as much as we can in conjunction with > acpi_call to add functionality to mimic Optimus. But if NVIDIA corp is > not going to help us, we must help ourselves. > -- > Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía <[email protected]> > > El dom, 05-06-2011 a las 02:51 -0400, James escribió: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm recently got a Dell L702X and so far it's been a rather nice >> machine aside from the Optimus hurdle. So far, it works just fine >> with the Intel chip, actually compiz capable but, I've got a 550M next >> to it. So far, I've managed to use the acpi_call module >> (http://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call) to turn on and off the NVIDIA >> chip and I can confirm this by the amount of power being drawn from >> the battery. My question is, with the NVIDIA chip enabled, is there >> anyway to have the NVIDIA proprietary driver take over? I've tried >> this with and without the Intel VESA module but, with the same result, >> a black screen. The monitor does not turn off into a standby state, >> it simply just display no content. My guess would be that everything >> must go through the Intel chip before it can hit the NVIDIA and that >> the NVIDIA chip has to send everything back to the Intel chip due to >> the monitor being connected to the Intel chip. Ideally I'd like to >> just have the NVIDIA chip always on with the NVIDIA driver handling >> things but, I suppose if it was this easy, there would be no need for >> the bumblebee project. Is something like this even currently doable? >> >> Thanks, >> James >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
