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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: switching graphic card
From:       Jérôme <jerome () aranha ! fr>
Date:       2012-04-30 16:06:29
Message-ID: 201204301806.30234.jerome () aranha ! fr
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Le lundi 30 avril 2012 10:10:34, Alexandre CONFIANT-LATOUR a =E9crit :
> To do so, you can use Bumblebee =

> <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee>. It allows to switch =

> between the 2 graphic cards. But It's drawback is that the switch is =

> made "by hand" for each application. For instance, to run glxgears =

with =

> the "big" card, you have to run by hand 'optirun glxgears'.
> =

> The trick uses 2 Xservers, one with each card. Apps launched with =

> optirun are rendered on the server using the big card and passed to =

the =

> other one.

Bumblebee works fine for my Asus (Debian Wheezy or Sid) and save my =

battery. You can make an alias (or change .Desktop) for the rare =

application that require optirun.

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jerome@aranha.fr
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