black-Friday notebook deal -- Linux!

Ivan Avery Frey ivan.avery.frey-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 29 05:46:11 UTC 2011


On 28/11/11 13:53, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 05:50:36PM -0800, Tyler Aviss wrote:
>> I've been pretty happy with my.Asus running linux. Core i7, plenty of RAM.
>> Drivers work just fine.F
>>
>> or Asus laptops, you're gotta be careful about the ones with the "hybrid"
>> graphics cards. The secondary (high-power) card is not really supported ,
>> although slash recently had an article on emerging support
>
> It is being worked on, but yes it can be a hassle.  Some systems have a
> BIOS option to enable either the intel, the nvidia or dynamic switching.
> I believe linux is OK with it if set to one or the other for now.
>

I should add that these systems don't really have hybrid graphics cards. Usually 
the chip itself has the intel hd 3000 stuff and then there is nvidia graphics 
card as an addon.

Ivan.
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