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[Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía <samsagax@xxxxxxxxx>]

El dom, 01-05-2011 a las 12:13 +1000, Pigeon escribió:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> > i recently bought a laptop (msi cx640) using nvidia optimus
> > unknowingly, that it was pretty unusable to me on linux.
> > however i found a (rather dirty) hack to be able to at least use my
> > nvidia graphics card, so that i dont have to throw my laptop into the
> > trashbin.
> 
> 	I've been experimenting the same kind of approach by using vnc
> (x11vnc + vncviewer). I'm running two X servers on the same host, one
> intel and one nvidia. I have to force the two X servers to be on the
> same vt to trick both X to "render" at the same time, rather dirty too.
> 
> 	Performance isn't great as expected. I got quite a lot of
> tearing when I was testing with some GL apps/games. But it's usable at
> least.
> 
> 	I haven't tried your windump app yet. I believe you can get
> some performance gain by using the Xdamage protocol, which x11vnc uses
> by default. Though I'm not an X expert either. 
> 
> 	This is on an Alienware M11x-R2 btw.
> 
> 
> Pigeon.


Small steps for you... big ones for hybrid graphics I think :) 
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Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía <samsagax@xxxxxxxxx>