On 3 March 2012 20:07, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote: > elephant dung. If you want to use a proprietary driver video card for > god's sake go to nVidia, at least theirs work.
... unless you get a laptop with an intel-i5 integrated GPU with an nvidia optimus discrete GPU. You can get it to work, but out of the box on linux, only the intel is usable, because the Nvidia chip has no display devices attached to it, and even on windows, programs run electively on the nvidia chip by proxying render calls to the nvidia chip and swapping the rendered areas via ram to the intel for display, and there's no way to from the bios, "use nvidia instead". And Nvidia do not themselves support their optimus platform on linux *at all* and have explicitly stated they never will. Fortunately some people with a clue or 2 have conjured up bumblebeed , which attaches a displayless X session to the GPU somehow, and emulates windows and the device proxying stuff with a Virtual GL library , and that works now. ( But this is technology that has only just really come into existence in the last few months, while the optimus platform has been around for a year or more ) Long story short, "at least theirs work" is no longer strictly true for Nvidia, though you can get it to work ( I have, and its quite fast now ), just requires a bit of jiggerypokery. However, this "working" is not nvidias doing. https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bumblebee -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
