What is needed is someone way smarter than me to modify grub to send
all the necessary commands to disable/enable whatever hardware is
needed. In theory, a custom grub could be gen'ed for all known working
hybrid graphics variations. Then a simple grub config file option line
could say "hybridType=whatever" causing it to send whatever is needed
to make the hardware work.
BTW, has their been ANY positive results from ANY of the nVidia Optimus
machines? I have an Alienware M11xR2 that has the nVidia disabled and
not using power, but I would also like to be able to switch over to
actually using the nVidia graphics as well.
On 02/01/2011 02:16 PM, Michal Biskup wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the hint, but already tried that. My bios is extremely
option-poor. Time settings, boot options, supervisor password... that's
all. No way to force any kind of graphics :-(
Cheers,
Michal Biskup
[email protected]
On 2011-02-01 20:09, David Overcash wrote:
Michal,
I was able to go into the BIOS and specifically set nVidia to
be always on for my computer (Thinkpad T410) - however I could have
also done the same to specify only Intel graphics. You should check
that out and see what you can find. Also - I had to force it to not
search for Optimus support within the OS to keep it from reverting any
settings I had.
Cheers,
David
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Michal
Biskup <[email protected]> wrote:
Welcome all,
I just got my hands on Asus N53SV with hybrid graphics:
- Intel Core i7-2630QM
- Intel HD Graphics 3000
- nVidia GeForce GT 540M
- Linux Mint 10 64-bit
... and realized (just like everyone else) how deep s**t did I step
into. Anyway if anyone needs some testing to be done I am eager to
help. I just need some easy-to-follow tutorial on how to set up the
testing environment and what to test (I have experience as a linux user
+ tons of experience as a windows developer, but zero experience as a
linux developer).
After hours of reading I managed to learn that I won't be able to use
nVidia card at this time and I am stuck with Intel. Does anyone know
how to enable at least Intel integrated graphics card? Normally Intel
cards work out-of-the-box on linux, but in this case it does not.
Cheers,
Michal Biskup
[email protected]
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