Current support and roadmap for discrete graphics card hot switching

Stephane Marchesin marchesin at icps.u-strasbg.fr
Thu Jan 15 02:40:00 PST 2009


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:21, Albert Vilella <avilella at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What is the current support and roadmap for discrete graphics card hot
> switching in Xorg?

There is no support, and AFAIK no roadmap either. There are many
technical reasons why this is not possible today. In short, I wouldn't
suggest getting a dual GPU laptop with the purpose of using it under
linux, as one of the GPUs will probably stay unused.

Stephane



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