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[Christian Mayer <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Jonas,

Jonas schrieb:
> 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.

AFAIK does this laptop not have the Optimus technology. It has the
second graphics "chip" as an Core i5 just doesn't come without one...

> 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 :-/

Yup - and it's getting worse. Even the new Core i7 that will come early
next year will have an internal graphic chip. I.e. very soon most
computers that have a dedicated GPU will suffer from the fact that two
graphic chips are built in. I fear that'll give a desaster for Linux on
the desktop... :(

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