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Re: Deactivate Switchable Graphics on ATI

 

As I understand it, Sylvain's module turns the ATI card off. Is there an
ACPI routine for turning the Intel one off when you intend to use ATI, or is
that not possible (considering the Intel graphics is in the chipset)?

mike

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Alexander Simon <simon_alex@xxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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