switching graphic card

[Jérôme]

Le lundi 30 avril 2012 10:10:34, Alexandre CONFIANT-LATOUR a écrit :
> 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 at aranha.fr