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[Joshua Gillies <josh.gillies@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Meir,

To the best of my knowledge the HDMI port on your laptop currently does not
work (at all) under linux. There have been bug reports submitted about this
issue (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/794503), I'd
recommend giving these a look for further information.

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Meir Maor <meirmaor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a dell XPS L502 optimus enabled laptop with Ubuntu 11.10
> out of the box I get the internal screen&mini display port working
> correctly with the integrated intel graphics controller
> and the hdmi port (presumably hardwired to the discrete nVidia) doesn't
> work.
>
> I was thinking could I ignore the fancy optimus capabilities and use the
> nVidia to power my external monitor via hdmi
> and get all the hardware accelerations on that screen, while using the
> integrated chip for the laptops internal monitor.
>
> I figure I don't really need to send data from discreet GPU to any screen.
>
> does this make sense, is it possible, has anyone done this, how do I go
> about doing this?
>
>   Meir
>
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- Josh