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[Jonas <oj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Christian,

As far as I know, at the moment the NVidia card in the Optimus hybrid
graphics does not work at all under linux.
Nvidia proprietary driver does not work, same story for the nouveau driver.

I surely DO hope I am wrong, cause it's very annoying having to switch to
windows every time I want to watch HD content :-/

Cheers,

Jonas

On 26 November 2010 15:59, Christian Mayer <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> thanks for this group, since yesterday I'm also a victim of the hybrid
> graphics (Dell Vostro 3700, i.e. Core i5 + nVidia) of which I didn't
> know that I might suffer from before my buy...
>
> What is the current state of the hybrid graphics under Linux?
>
> I can find lots of ressources (like the
> http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/) but no real solution nor a
> road map towards it.
> What I think I have understood is that the "DSDT ON/OFF" works for a few
> - - but (and here I'm unsure if I got that right) it is only to disable
> the extra graphic chip and to use only the "internal" one.
>
> My interest lies in the opposite: as the laptop is used as an desktop
> replacement I don't care about power consumtion but I do want to use the
> nVidia chip all the time (with the proprietary drivers...).
>
> Should I still look into the "DSDT ON/OFF" stuff?
>
> Or is this topic still a big mess and I need to wait a few months?
> How can I help to improofe the situation? Still send a DSDT?
>
> Thanks,
> Christian
>
> PS: I though I read somewhere that the VGA switcheroo comes with Ubuntu
> 10.10 - but I can't find it. Did I do something wrong?
>
>
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