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[Matthew Woelk <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad W520, and all I want is the ability to save
battery power by deactivating the graphics card (without rebooting and
using the BIOS, though that works).

Currently using Bumblebee on Arch Linux.

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 12:39 PM, authesserre samuel <sauthess@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> same here...
>
> HP dm4-1162sf ATI+intel and a lot of difficulties to use my hardware (for
> ATI part ;) all others things works perfectly)
>
> I succeed to use completly my hardware with relatively old distros (debian
> stable or ubuntu 10.04) with a specific version of ATI drivers (11.8);
> newer ones didn't support my hardware anymore (ask for driver
> uninstallation at X startup).
> On newer distros/kernel other hardware are better supported (sound and
> intel graphic driver for example) but ATI fails in all case...
>
> Hope ATI will support my hardware on 2012 (a laptop that have less than
> one year old...) but it's not sure as they volontary break support during
> this year (on september).
>
> With nvidia that didn't do better than ATI, I do not know what is the
> perfect solution to have a laptop to work and to play games.
> If you have a perfect configuration I will greatly appreciate your
> solution (and will sell this computer ASAP for this one ;) )
>
> BR
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Steven J. Owens <puff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:48:29PM -0800, Jardi Martínez wrote:
>> >    I wish also full support for Nvidia Optimus Technology.
>> >    I have a Thinkpad T420....
>>
>>      Me too, Thinkpad T520.  I love my thinkpads (had my t43p for six
>> years before I finally upgraded, gave it to a friend who's *still*
>> using it!) but I am soooooo tired of poorly supported hardware.
>>
>> --
>> Steven J. Owens
>> puff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx / (412) 401-8060 cell
>> | "I'm going to make broad, sweeping generalizations and strong,
>> |  declarative statements, because otherwise I'll be here all night and
>> |  this document will be four times longer and much less fun to read.
>> |  Take it all with a grain of salt."
>> |  - http://darksleep.com/notablog
>>
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