is it possible to have better support for Optimus?

Per Bothner per at bothner.com
Wed Aug 8 09:03:14 UTC 2012


On 07/08/12 09:46, Per Bothner wrote:
> Any chance Bumblebee could be packaged for Fedora?  Or is there some
> other recommended solution?

On 08/07/2012 01:31 AM, Matthias Runge wrote:
> You may have not noticed, yet.
>
> There's a review request for bumblebee
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827167

Great - I hope that succeeds soon!

On 08/07/2012 04:24 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Aside from Matthias' reply, there's another option, depending on your
> use case and your hardware - if you just want to use the Intel adapter
> all the time, and if your hardware allows it, you might be able to just
> disable the NVIDIA adapter entirely at the firmware level.

Alas, the BIOS doesn't seem to have a way to do that.  (Using "BIOS"
to refer to the BIOS UI/program.)  This is a DigitalStorm (Clevo) laptop,
FWIW.
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