Current support and roadmap for discrete graphics card hot switching

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Jan 15 02:33:09 PST 2009


On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:21:53 +0000
Albert Vilella <avilella at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> What is the current support and roadmap for discrete graphics card hot
> switching in Xorg?

OLPC does automatic switching of display controller for power management.

> There are currently ~40 users of Sony Vaio Z series using Linux that would
> like this feature to be implemented. See:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series<https://launchpad.net/%7Esony-vaio-z-series>

Perhaps they can all extract the documentation from Nvidia 8)




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