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[all variants] NVIDIA or AMD Hybrid Graphics?

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I'm about to buy myself a new notebook and I've been wondering about the whole Hybrid Graphics problem. I've had a Dell XPS 15 with a NVIDIA Optimus Graphics Card for a while now, and I'm really not very happy with the way bumblebee and ironhide "solved" the problem. I've looked into some AMD Radeon Graphics Cards and I haven't found many people complaining about problems with the switch between the discrete and integrated cards. But apparently AMD made a lot of attempts on this energy saving field, and things got a little messy, there is Enduro tecnology, zero core technology (Hardware)

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Submitted by colm on 10/09/2012

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This tutorial is going to show you how to turn on/off the discrete nVidia graphics card on nVidia Optimus Ubuntu laptop. For now, nVidia Optimus doesn’t support Linux system.

I am shopping for a new laptop. Most new laptops come with a hybrid graphics setup and often with NVidia (Optimus).

I am eyeing a Samsung Series 7 Chronos NP700Z7C-S02DE. It has an integrated Intel graphics card and a discrete Nvidia with Optimus technology.

My laptop uses a hybrid graphics hardware.

Using the vgaswitcheroo I am able to power off either card and switch between them correctly.

The issue is that the system wakes up/resumes from suspend correctly only when using the discrete graphics, or atleast the discrete graphics must be powered on even if the display is connected to the onboard intel card.

Has anyone faced this issues?

hi there. i am going to buy a new laptop with an intel i7 cpu and a discrete video. and as far as i understood, there is no way to find high-performance laptop without this troublesome hybrid graphic feature =(

the question is - what is more problematic, nvidia or ati card?

And also this:http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeatureParticullaryThere are two versions of hybrid graphics: MUXed and MUX-less. MUXed have a display MUX to switch the displays between the discrete and integrated cards. MUXed systems can be switched using vgaswitcheroo. MUX-less do not have a display MUX and the displays are only connected to the integrated card.

Hi

Decided to start a thread to list some of the laptops that have nvidia optimus in them and get it to run with Ubuntu (or other variants) with Bumblebee or Ironhide or other solutions that exist out there.

Basically I'm curious about the Ubuntu laptop users' answers to the following questions:

1) What kind of laptops do you use and with what NVIDIA video card?

Hello,

I am using a Sony VPCZ11X9E with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M and an Intel Graphics card.

My laptop used to have almost no BIOS options that made Fedora's job difficult and I had to use acpi_call.

Now that I flashed a new BIOS I am able to choose which card I want to use before the OS boots. Then the OS will "see" only the card I want and nothing else.

And so it happened.

I've heard that one can do some really swanky things (and not just advanced graphics rendering) with all the extra processing cores on even the less expensive Nvidia cards, so I'm thinking about getting one.Here's the thing:  The onboard graphics on my mobo are the crappy Radeon HD4250.  Can this be easily disabled?  (EDIT:  Or, since I mostly want the extra proc

Hi guys,

I got an acer aspire 5755G with Nvidia GT630M optimus technology and want to make use of it as that is my last job to get my acer to a complete ubuntu laptop.