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[Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía <samsagax@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Am I mistaken?

Sadly you are. This laptop does not have a hardware mux. Depends on the
year the model was released. Sadly Dell names almos all models the same.

Mine is a Dell Vostro 3500 (Bios A10), intel core i5-460M + NV GF 310M
Optimus enabled.
-- 
Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía <samsagax@xxxxxxxxx>

El jue, 14-07-2011 a las 14:01 -0400, Eric Appleman escribió:
> On 07/14/2011 12:50 PM, Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía wrote:
> > Hi guys.
> >   I've decided to try vga-switcheroo under Bumblebee and it worked! (al
> > least for my Vostro 3500). I think is a safer(?) way and maybe
> > universal(?) as the vga-switcheroo module detects the methods by it's
> > own.
> > See
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee#Power_Switching_Using_Vga-switcheroo
> >
> > Maybe is a way to unify all handlers?
> >
> I'm not sure why you need Bumblebee on that notebook. You have a 
> hardware mux. You should be able to use the card by itself with UCC's 
> vga_switcheroo implementation or asus_switcheroo.
> 
> Am I mistaken?
> 
> - Eric
> 
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