Re: Satellite P870 issues
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 06:48:33PM +0200, lee wrote:
> Julian De Marchi <julian@jdcomputers.com.au> writes:
>
> > My major issue is the video devices. They are apparently a switchable
> > "type", so you have the choice to use either the intel or nvidia
> > GPUs.
>
> You might be out of luck depending on what hardware is in your
> laptop. Google for "muxless"; if your laptop is muxless, switching to
> the NVIDIA card won't get you any further than to a blank display. IIRC,
> there's some file under /sys that has something to do with vgaswitcheroo
> which would allow you to switch between the cards if you have compiled
> support for it into the kernel. That will take you to a blank screen/no
> video output, so make sure you use a script that switches back
> automatically when you try it.
Are you sure lee? Wouldn't some sort of module blacklisting/whitelisting
work?
Disclaimer: This is just off the top of my head, but is where I'd start
looking. Although I'd probably do a google search with various
combinations of search terms just to see if I could get a slight smell
of a clue of what to start looking at.
Looks good though:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/series/Satellite-P870-series/1122238/
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