On Thursday 25 of October 2012 20:06:54 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 25.10.2012, Paweł Sikora wrote: > > > what is the reason of loading nouveau driver for laptops > > with nvidia optimus and enabling vga switcheroo > > which doesn't work in such (optimus) cases. > > You can safely compile a kernel without nouveau, your Nvidia > card will not be used at all since neither Linux nor the > proprietary nvidia driver does support optimus at this time > (and frankly, I won't buy any further machines with opticrap). > So having nouveau compiled and loaded seems like a waste of ressources > in this case.
i've bought this asus laptop mostly for a developer's workstation replacement (quad-core-i7-avx cpu with integrated gpu, with 12GB ram and 2x500GB hdd). nvidia's addon is an optional crap :) > For me it's important to have nouveau working, because I try/use > Bumblebee and optirun: > > http://bumblebee-project.org/ > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee i'll try to use transformers too :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
