Re: [Hybrid-graphics-linux] Nvidia responds to Linus

2012-06-20 Thread Madura Anushanga
You may refer to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst, Catalyst does not support the newest Xorg servers. They do not update their drivers much(or someone can say Xorg is changing their driver interface too much) for what ever reason it won't work with newer Xorgs. And newer Ubuntu's u

Re: [Hybrid-graphics-linux] Nvidia responds to Linus

2012-06-20 Thread Mario Mey
El 19/06/12 18:43, Vangel V. Ajanovski escribió: On 06/19/2012 06:44 PM, Madura Anushanga wrote: but who asked for "seamless"? People just need a way to "switch" the cards on Linux *some how* without getting in to details. nVidia is now riding the Xorg bandwagon for optimus, soon th

Re: [Hybrid-graphics-linux] Nvidia responds to Linus

2012-06-19 Thread Vangel V. Ajanovski
On 06/19/2012 06:44 PM, Madura Anushanga wrote: but who asked for "seamless"? People just need a way to "switch" the cards on Linux *some how* without getting in to details. nVidia is now riding the Xorg bandwagon for optimus, soon they'll be pr

Re: [Hybrid-graphics-linux] Nvidia responds to Linus

2012-06-19 Thread Madura Anushanga
> > IMHO, this just avoids the bad that nVidia has done and highlights the > good they've done, anyone can do business with Linux no said thats bad, > even though developers hate binary blobs most users love the performance > gains from them instead of the pains of maintainability. The problem here

Re: [Hybrid-graphics-linux] Nvidia responds to Linus

2012-06-19 Thread David Overcash
It's a fair response - except that it completely avoids the issue that 90% of laptops shipped with NVidia chips ( estimated statistic, don't quote me ) are using an Optimus configuration, rendering the "fantastic" NVidia driver completely moot. I realize that X is in no state to support switchable

Re: [Hybrid-graphics-linux] Nvidia responds to Linus

2012-06-19 Thread jason peel
in fairness that is a sound response - after all its a business BTW did I say thanks for the hardware Bumblebee Devs put in! I know precisious little about how things work but would love to get involved somehow. I use Bumblebee for running Graphics apps such as Blender and because later this yea

[Hybrid-graphics-linux] Nvidia responds to Linus

2012-06-19 Thread Eric Appleman
Supporting Linux is important to NVIDIA, and we understand that there are people who are as passionate about Linux as an open source platform as we are passionate about delivering an awesome GPU experience. Recently, there have been some questions raised about our lack of support for our Optimus n