On 01/11/13 04:50, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 31/10/13 00:21, Basil Chupin escribió:
What do you mean by this? Do you mean that I won't have any decent video when the kernel switches off "the nvidia device" or that the Optimus part will be switched off and the only thing which will be lost is the powersaving provided by Optimus?
The NVIDIA device is usually wired through the Integrated GPU, when your system is not using the nvidia chip as the primary video output (usually can be configured in the BIOS) then the integrated graphics will drive the display.. the kernel then (version 3.12 only!) will do powersaving, otherwise your battery life will be beyond awful and the machine will make a lot of fan noise.
will I still have working nVidia graphics and be able to have 1920x1080 resolution and not something which resembles EGA graphics?
Yes, video will work with the appropiate resolution and all of that.. but you may not be able to actually use the nvidia device without third party hacks, depending on how your system is internally wired or what level of control your BIOS offers.
Thanks for this, Cristian, and sorry for not replying earlier. I will ensure that I have kernel 3.12.x installed when I get the laptop. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.12.0-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org