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Re: Deactivate Switchable Graphics on ATI

 

Cool! The key question though, when you switch to Intel graphics does the
power consumption drop or is the ati card still on?
Have you checked with Powertop?

Damon.

2009/9/30 Alexander Simon <simon_alex@xxxxxx>

> Yeah, this code the Ubuntu people are using is from Sylvain Joyeux, who
> posted
> this solution at the radeonhd mailing list in august.
> It works perfectly for me, i was even able to switch between both cards
> while
> running Linux!
> When i have the time, i want to write a kernel module that can switch
> between
> the cards via /sys interface and a little script that takes care about
> xorg.conf.
>
>
> Alex
>
> Am Sonntag 20 September 2009 14:10:32 schrieb Stepan Kabele:
> > Hi
> >
> > I found solution at Ubuntu forums how to switch off ATI card:
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1242590.html
> > I could not verify it, I am deciding if to buy this notebook (and
> > which version).
> >
> > Good luck
> > Stepan
> >
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