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Re: future of sony-laptop-zseries

 

How does it work/can be integrated with bumblebee?

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On 16/04/12 16:36 Norbert Preining wrote:

Hi Flavio,


On Mo, 16 Apr 2012, Flavio wrote:
> > * stamina/speed switching
> >  - first I have the feeling that in recent kernels the discrete
> >    graphic card is automatically switched off
> >    I am running 3.4-rc2 and have a manual switch (speed,stamina, NO auto!)
> >    and if I boot in stamina I don't see any nvidia card anymore
> I just want to say something about this problem.
> I come from an old Sony SZ330P which had just that problem: the stamina/speed
> manual switch.
> You are right. Actually if you set stamina, the nvidia card is hidden
> and if you set
> speed the intel one is not visible.
> This problem has been solved for the X server by an initscript that
> checks just that.
> If the video card is nvidia, it loads the Xorg.conf for the nvidia
> card. If the intel card
> is detected, it loads the related Xorg.conf file.


RIght, I don't need anything else.


> I guess the problem above wouldn't be the only one that stops you on
> going on for
> the development, but there are many other graphic-related problems that come.


*I* don't have any other graphic related, since my Z11 is old very old.
SO for me no problem at all.


The only thing I *wanted* is the battery care function, and that is now
in the devel version of the in-kernel driver, so no need for me to
continue maintaining the out-of-tree version.


Best wishes


Norbert

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