Drakeo would you mind elaborating? Yours is one of the only assessments that this will be easy I've read. For the Optimus counter point:
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We have no plans to support Optimus on Linux at this time.
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- From AaronP / NVIDIA Corporation (
source)
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Optimus is a whole different story, I assume it'll still have a _DSM method to turn on/off the GPU, but there is no output mux to switch, so there is no way without a major rearchitecture of the X.org and DRI stacks we can support optimus anytime soon.
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- Dave Airlie at RedHat (
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Are you simply pointing out that by accepting a reboot to switch the "Optimus problem" goes away and we've got proprietary drivers for this
chipset?
It looks like you've pasted in driver info from the
Nvidia driver search site (
ex) using:
Code:
Product Type: Quadro
Product Series: Quadro NVS Series (Notebooks)
Product: NVS 3100M
I'm under the impression these drivers simply make the card work, but do not address switching. Have I misunderstood your point / the drivers?
As I said in the OP I'm willing to reboot / accept Optimus behavior isn't coming anytime soon. I've read reports that say when used as two independent graphics systems - only one of which is enabled at a time with switching done in the bios - each individual card will work.
This leaves me with two questions:
- What sort of configuration would have to be changed in my distro to go from a system that on one boot found it was running integrated Intel graphics and on the next found it had discrete Nvidia graphics requiring proprietary drivers?
- What can be done to simplify / automate this config switching?
Thanks.