On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 02:16:45PM +0100, Michael Pujos wrote:
On 1/21/19 8:54 PM, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 05:43:30PM +0100, Michael Pujos wrote:
I've been working on improvements to suse-prime.
In particular, the ability to turn off the NVIDIA card entirely with bbswitch when not in use. This adds some complexity, but it is worth it as I have noticed my laptop idle power consumption using the Intel card go from 12W to about 6W when the NVIDIA card is powered off and a gain of -10 degrees on the temperature.
You can find a description and instructions on github: https://github.com/bubbleguuum/better-suse-prime
of course, the suse-prime maintainers are encouraged to pick any bits they see fit for the regular package. Thanks! Sounds interesting! Could you do a pull request against
https://github.com/michalsrb/SUSEPrime
Thanks again, Stefan
Will work on it. By default and for simplicity it will work exactly as suse-prime (just needing to logout and login) but with my improvements (Intel driver support, BusID for intel, working external monitor support with nvidia). bbswitch support for turning off the nvidia card needs special install steps and is optional but largely the most interesting modification I made, but it will be up to user to do it if he wants to, using detailed instructions I wrote. Does it looks ok for you ?
There are some things I would like to discuss, but would prefer to comment the appropriate pull request instead of doing this here, so things are properly tracked. Thanks, Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany --------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org