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[James <jgeboski@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

I'm recently got a Dell L702X and so far it's been a rather nice
machine aside from the Optimus hurdle.  So far, it works just fine
with the Intel chip, actually compiz capable but, I've got a 550M next
to it.  So far, I've managed to use the acpi_call module
(http://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call) to turn on and off the NVIDIA
chip and I can confirm this by the amount of power being drawn from
the battery.  My question is, with the NVIDIA chip enabled, is there
anyway to have the NVIDIA proprietary driver take over?  I've tried
this with and without the Intel VESA module but, with the same result,
a black screen.  The monitor does not turn off into a standby state,
it simply just display no content.  My guess would be that everything
must go through the Intel chip before it can hit the NVIDIA and that
the NVIDIA chip has to send everything back to the Intel chip due to
the monitor being connected to the Intel chip.  Ideally I'd like to
just have the NVIDIA chip always on with the NVIDIA driver handling
things but, I suppose if it was this easy, there would be no need for
the bumblebee project.  Is something like this even currently doable?

Thanks,
James

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