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Using nouveau doesn't imply the card will always be on. Assuming the |
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firmware on the device turns it off and on, vga-switcheroo or bbswitch will |
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send the proper ACPI commands to turn it off and on. When it is on the |
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chosen driver will be used. |
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Erik Mackdanz <erikmack@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Heiko Baums <lists@××××××××××××.de> writes: |
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> > I don't know if, but I don't think that, it will work with |
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> > x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau. |
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> I used bumblebee for quite a while. It worked okay, but every upgrade I |
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> would have to fiddle with it again. |
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> I switched to the Nouveau driver and I'm very glad I did. "Conventional |
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> wisdom" says Nouveau quality is lower than Nvidia, but I found it worked |
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> better on some things (Second Life). |
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> As someone else pointed out, with Nouveau the GPU remains on all the |
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> time consuming power. This is the downside. |
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> If ease-of-use and/or open licensing are more important to you than top |
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> rendering quality and power consumption, consider using Nouveau. |
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> -- |
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> Erik Mackdanz |
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