Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0

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From	JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet>
Subject	Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0
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Date	2012-06-21 12:32 -0500

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On 2012-06-21, Bob Hauck <postmaster@avalanche.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:57:09 -0700 (PDT), White Spirit <wulfgar1976@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 21, 12:34 pm, Bob Hauck <postmas...@avalanche.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:28:38 -0700 (PDT), White Spirit <wulfgar1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On Jun 20, 1:47 am, Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstr...@xzoozy.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > NVidia contributes to Linux by developing its drivers in-house and
>>> > keeping them up to date with the latest features.
>>
>>> Unless you have a laptop. Then their binary blobs aren't up with the
>>> latest features after all.
>>
>> I was under the impression that the chipsets available on laptops
>> generally don't have the latest features in the first instance.
>
> The particular feature Linus was talking about in the video was NVidia's 
> "Optimus" feature where laptops have two graphic cards, one slower but 
> low power and one faster but higher power. The OS can decide which one 
> is used on an application-by-application basis.
>
> This feature isn't supported by NVidia on Linux. There is unofficial 
> support from a third party, but not from NVidia.

   This isn't just two graphics cards. It's one graphics card being wired
into another one from a different vendor. If it was just 2 graphics cards 
then you could just use the GPU of your choice and there wouldn't be an 
issue.

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Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Hardon <hardon.quirk@gmail.com> - 2012-06-19 19:31 +0000
  Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2012-06-19 18:44 -0400
  Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-19 20:47 -0400
    Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-19 17:58 -0700
    Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 White Spirit <wulfgar1976@gmail.com> - 2012-06-21 02:28 -0700
      Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-21 06:10 -0400
      Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Bob Hauck <postmaster@avalanche.org> - 2012-06-21 07:34 -0400
        Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-06-21 14:57 +0100
        Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 White Spirit <wulfgar1976@gmail.com> - 2012-06-21 06:57 -0700
          Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2012-06-21 09:03 -0500
          Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Bob Hauck <postmaster@avalanche.org> - 2012-06-21 10:46 -0400
            Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-06-21 12:32 -0500
        Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-06-21 12:30 -0500
          NVidia doesn't do open source.  @Jeff-Relf.Me - 2012-06-21 12:21 -0700
          Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-21 17:08 -0400
            Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-06-21 16:13 -0500
      Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2012-06-21 08:55 -0500
  Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-06-21 12:26 +0100
    Re: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0 Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2012-06-21 13:31 +0200

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