Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:50:28
Message-Id: 1552697.bmXyRDFIxS@andromeda
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus by Heiko Baums
1 On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:49:08 AM Heiko Baums wrote:
2 > Am 17.12.2014 um 10:39 schrieb behrouz khosravi:
3 > > I think that it is possible, or supposed to be possible!
4 > > The gentoo wiki says that Nvidia drivers are now supporting the optimus,
5 > > so
6 > > it is called "native optimus support"
7 >
8 > That's only true for the Windows version of the Nvidia driver, not for
9 > the Linux version.
10 >
11 > Heiko
12
13 Not really, on MS Windows it is also handled by a seperate program. That bit
14 just happens to be installed as part of the driver itself.
15
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17 Joost