On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Albert Vilella <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Right now there is no way of ignoring the intel graphics driver other > than directly from the BIOS, and only in certain models, but with the > optimus bumblebee you *are* using nvidia hardware *and* nvidia drivers > for all the applications you call with optirun. There is a penalty in > using VirtualGL routing, but other than that, it does use the nvidia > drivers, that are on-par with the Windows drivers in performance. > > It would be useful if you could run this on Windows and Linux > bumblebee to check the performance difference: > At the moment I do not wish to risk the working linux installation by installing bumblebee over it. By "working" I mean it works fine when I disable Optimus in the BIOS. > > > and please reply with the FPS values for the three cases. > > > Does this laptop have a hardware LVDS mux? > > If yes, does someone know how to throw the switch via acpi_call? > > There is no obvious LVDS mux in your model's DSDT tables but it could > be a different method that we've found so far... > I think there must be some mux, because when I disable Optimus in the BIOS, the nVidia output is what goes to the LCD. Sadly I cannot find any method in the ACPI tables to actually do it in runtime.
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