I think Bumblebee is your only choice here. Just don't use it to turn on/off your card you can modify the scripts to do that.
-- Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía <[email protected]> El mar, 14-06-2011 a las 11:13 +0300, Moshe Nissim escribió: > I dual-boot to windows-7 therefore I would like to keep the BIOS > setting of Optimus to 'enabled'. > On linux, at this stage, I would simply like to use the nVidia card > with nVidia drivers, NOT toggling it off/on, > using bumblebee VirtualGL or anything fancy. (and drain the > battery...) > > > lspci shows the intel + nvidia cards (as expected). > > > Trying to use Xorg with explicit PCI number of the nVidia card > ("BusID"...) fails with > "NVIDIA(0): No display devices found". > > > Trying to force a display connection ("ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0") - > Xorg starts without complains, > but screen is blanked (text-mode login prompt disappears, _ cursor on > top left). > ctrl-alt-Fx switches to other text-mode login screens. > Seems to me like its still the Intel output (which is still in text > mode). > > > Does this laptop have a hardware LDVS mux? > If so, how co control it? > > > Disabling Optimus in the BIOS makes only the nVidia card visible on > lspci, and Xorg works as expected > (without any need for explicit 'ConnectedMonitor' setting, or 'BusID' > setting). > But this is a pain, since I dual-boot to windows-7 and want the > Optimus mode to work there. > > > attached files: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/lpbugreporter/+bug/752542/+attachment/2166441/+files/Latitude%20E6420.tar.gz > _______________________________________________ > 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
