Status of Optimus laptop graphics in F22?

Sudhir Khanger ml at sudhirkhanger.com
Fri May 29 13:10:21 UTC 2015


On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:
> OK Thanks.  I might give them a try, but still wonder if they support
> Optimus and dynamic power switching as well as they claim.

Optimus offloads graphic intensive work to dedicated graphic card,
automatically, which is simply not supported by Nvidia on Linux.
Dynamic power on/off of external graphic card is a kernel/nouveau
feature. Bumblebee let's you turn on dedicated card for specific
applications that has to be done via commandline.

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