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[Eshwar Venkanna Andhavarapu <eshwar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

but thing is i want only the discrete card if the switching stuff doesn't
work :( with the intel one i can't enable any of the desktop effects, use
vdpau for video, etc.

so much for this optimus/hybrid graphics rubbish. its a pain in linux


On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Nathan Hourt <nat.hourt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You might try putting acpi_osi=Linux on your kernel commandline. On my
> laptop (Asus K52Jc), that causes the BIOS to disable the discrete graphics
> card entirely, lspci doesn't even list it anymore. Unfortunately, that means
> it's totally unusable until you boot without that option, but at least it
> doesn't take any power.
>
> --
> Nathan Hourt
>