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| dfarmer | Hi, I'm trying to figure out what the status is with optimus support (nvidia-prime, raring kernel/xorg) -- does it support power management or just acceleration? | 17:46 |
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| tjaalton | just acceleration | 17:47 |
| tjaalton | and external outputs | 17:47 |
| tjaalton | although not easy to set that up atm | 17:48 |
| dfarmer | Alright. Thanks. I may still give it a shot anyway | 17:54 |
| dfarmer | I've been Googling around and not really finding anything, I guess nvidia hasn't said anything else about power management? | 17:54 |
| tjaalton | what do you mean by "power management" | 17:55 |
| dfarmer | Having the discrete GPU switch off when it's not being used | 17:55 |
| tjaalton | right, not happening | 17:55 |
| tjaalton | since it needs to draw the screen | 17:55 |
| tjaalton | several things blocking it, one obvious one is the libGL abi | 17:56 |
| tjaalton | you can only have one active | 17:57 |
| tjaalton | in this case it's the nvidia libs | 17:57 |
| tjaalton | but they're trying to fix that with khronos | 17:57 |
| dfarmer | Ah ok. I didn't realize the issue there was that fundamental. | 17:58 |
| dfarmer | So pretty much what bumblebee is doing with a separate x server and compositing is really the only workable way to have switchable graphics until that gets resolved in the future. | 17:59 |
| tjaalton | and xserver replaced with something else | 18:00 |
| dfarmer | Thanks for educating me a bit :) | 18:03 |
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