NVIDIA Optimus Tech Makes Switching Between Internal Notebook GPUs Seamless

NVIDIA Optimus takes GPU changing tech out of the hands of the user making notebooks with integrated and discrete GPUs much easier to use.

I have a MSI GT60 Laptop with an Optimus enabled GTX 670M GPU, and I have been trying to get CUDA going in Ubuntu 12.04 environment.

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.

While many tech companies chose tried to make April Fools of us yesterday, Nvidia released a handful of new 700M-series notebook GPUs designed to bring more power and better battery life to notebooks.

So we might not have to avoid 60% of the laptops on the market and settle for on die integrated GPUs in the near future! Phoronix scoop here: NVIDIA Confirms It's Working On Optimus Linux Support

Switching from integrated to discrete laptop graphics usually meant a reboot. Most people never bothered. So Nvidia did something about it.

My laptop has 2 GPUs, the Intel HD Graphics 4000, and NVIDIA GeForce FT 650M. How do I switch between GPUs? I tried installing drivers from NVIDIA, but that ruined my Ubuntu installation, and I had to reinstall. The Additional Drivers in Settings don't list any Nvidia drivers either.

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?

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/bumbl...a-optimus.html

This is great news for Optimus users!