On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Chris Schanzle <schan...@nist.gov> wrote: > On 04/23/2013 12:29 PM, W K Daniel PUN wrote: >> >> I have re-installed the driver and disabled the Optimus in the BIOS. it is >> for Windows 7 only anyway [...] > > Just to clarify that nugget of misinformation...I can assure you that > Optimus is not just for Windows. > > Off-topic, but perhaps helpful to someone lurking: For about a year I have > used a very functional Optimus-switching Ubuntu 12.04 LTS running on a Dell > XPS 17 L702x laptop using Bumblebee. While I got Bumblebee to work under > Fedora, kernel upgrades (which are fast and furious on Fedora) always broke > X11; on Ubuntu it's been a non-issue, probably due to that's the distro the > Bumblebee developers use. I get fantastic battery life (8-10 hrs w/12cell > battery) and fans never cycle even after several hours of lightweight > email/web use. Perfect this application!
Bumblebee offered by ELRepo comes with a kernel module that is kABI-tracking -- meaning it survives kernel updates: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-bbswitch Will be nice if more hardware can be added to the page. Akemi
