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.
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?
This simple tutorial will explain how to turn off discrete card on a Ubuntu laptop with two graphic cards. Discrete graphic card takes up more energy and the processor usage. If you seldom use the discrete card, follow the steps to turn it off.
1. On Ubuntu, hit Ctrl+Alt+T to launch a terminal window.
Hey, just would like to know people's opinions here. I've never bought a laptop before, or a pre-built computer (only ever built my own towers), so I have a few questions.
1) Is it worthwhile to mess with Nvidia graphics drivers and graphic card switching, etc..., on a Linux laptop? Is the performance increase huge, hows the battery life, etc...
I bought a lenovo Y580 few hours ago with Nvidia 660MGTX.
I don't plan on conserving power on my laptop, as my laptop is always plugged in.
I would be fine with just one video card and its drivers.
I was told that my laptop would run on discrete graphics alone without intel HD 4000 running in the background.
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?
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 sw
My laptop has both an onboard Intel graphics card and a nVidia GeForce with Cuda and Optimus. I installed Bumblebee and can now run applications on the nVidia card by typing optirun [application name] in terminal.
I recently installed Ubuntu alongside with windows 8, but the problem is that the fan is constantly running and I believe the problem is that my nvidia card is always running.
My laptop has two graphic cards.
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