Hello, i'm considering buying a laptop with NVIDIA gpu since is the only officially supported on Openindiana.
I've found many laptops that would be great for me (price under 900€, hd display, i3 intel proc.) but all of them have NVIDIA Optimus technology that can control the power consumption on Windows enabling the nvidia gpu only when needed. I would like to know if anyone have tried this kind of laptops with OI or knows a laptop with the same specs/price but without nvidia optimus technology. On linux many reported that the system default gpu is the one from Intel, so the kernel uses it as the default even if the nvidia gpu is listed with lspci. 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 the intel and nvidia gpu share the same system bus and migrate the graphic memory data when the system needs to switch from one to another. I could be possible in a relatively close future to port those workarounds on openindiana/illumos world or simply disable the intel gpu? _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
