[OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA Optimus compatibility?

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

>Since these laptop have not an hardware switch/bios option and Nvidia plan
>is to not support this technology, on linux the nvidia card is left
>completely untouched and you can use it only with some 'unstable'
>workarounds to apply on the kernel and on userspace software.
>(http://www.martin-juhl.dk/) This is not the same as an 'hybrid' gpu
>laptops.

I think you need the latest version of the intel driver to do the
trick described in the link. But this will not work under OI, at least
for now.



A.S.
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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece