On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 23:47 +0100, Gendre Sebastien wrote: > Hello everybody. _o/ > > I have looked at bugzilla and live.gnome.org, but I don't see any plans > about managment of 2 graphics card. > > In some laptop, we have 2 graphics card: A small and a big. Recent Linux > kernel supports to ON/OFF each cards. Xorg can't switch without restart, > but it's planed on Wayland. > > So, any plan for Gnome 3.XX about graphics card switch? > > If not, I proposes a simple implementation. > In Power panel of Gnome Control Center, you have the option: > > "Focus on:" and can choose between "Better battery life" and "Higher > performance". > > "Better battery life" use the small graphics card, configure CPU on > "ondemand" and enable "laptop_mode" in linux kernel. > > "Higher performance" use the big graphics card, configure CPU on > "performance" and disable "laptop_mode" in linux kernel. > > After option have selected, the computer indicates to the user that he > need to logout for apply the change. > > > > Regards I may be wrong but from laptop_mode description it less of performance/battery life and more of safety/performance+battery life hence laptop_mode does not suit this choice. Regards
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