Re: [qubes-users] Nvidia Optimus mode not possible?

2017-03-07 Thread Vít Šesták
Good point on Bumblebee being dead, I've missed that. It works with my GPU, but my laptop model is from 2011… Bbswitch seems to be rather simple piece of software that can disable the Nvidia GPU. It might be worth of trying it even with new GPUs. Unless you have an output wired directly to

Re: [qubes-users] Nvidia Optimus mode not possible?

2017-03-07 Thread evo
On 03/07/2017 11:00 AM, Zrubi wrote: > On 03/06/2017 07:48 PM, evo wrote: >> i read some posts about this and as i understood, it is not >> possible to use optimus mode with nvidia and intel card on Qubes >> OS, is it right? > > Sadly you are right. > But this is a general limitation on linux,

Re: [qubes-users] Nvidia Optimus mode not possible?

2017-03-07 Thread Zrubi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/06/2017 07:48 PM, evo wrote: > i read some posts about this and as i understood, it is not > possible to use optimus mode with nvidia and intel card on Qubes > OS, is it right? Sadly you are right. But this is a general limitation on linux,

[qubes-users] Nvidia Optimus mode not possible?

2017-03-06 Thread Vít Šesták
Well, you probably can use Optimus with QubesOS, except it is pretty useless, because QubesOS renders everything in AppVMs on CPU. GPU is used: a. In dom0, where integrated GPU is usually enough. b. In HVMs if you use GPU passthrough. Note that you cannot start multiple VMs with the same VM

[qubes-users] Nvidia Optimus mode not possible?

2017-03-06 Thread evo
Hi! i read some posts about this and as i understood, it is not possible to use optimus mode with nvidia and intel card on Qubes OS, is it right? The thing with Bumblebee and bbswitch, which i don't fully understand, seems not to work, or do somebody have some new tricks? -- You received this