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Re: Inspiron N5510 Nvidia



On 09/01/12 23:59, hvw59601 wrote:
> Panayiotis wrote:
>> My friend recently purchased a Dell Inspiron N5110 and installed Debian
>> Squeeze on it.
>>
>> This laptop has an nVidia GT525 video card on it as well as integrated
>> Intel adapter. Apparently nVidia has a technology called Optimus which
>> switches between the two cards automatically to save power.
>>
>> Right now we have only been able to get the Intel card to work. The
>> nVidia card hangs the X server with both the nv and nvidia drivers. My
>> first question is has anyone been able to get this card (GT525) to work?
>>
>> My other question is whether we could hope to get the Optimus technology
>> to work?
>>
> 
> Did you see this?
> 
> http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3519/p/19375595/19862776.aspx#19862776
> 
> 
> Doesn't look good :-(
> 
> Hugo
> 
> 


Doesn't look good or didn't look good:-
http://www.google.com/search?q=Optimus+linux



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