F16 to include nVIDIA Optimus?

[GP500]

Hello

First thread and post.
Does anyone know if Fedora 16 will have drivers for the nVIDIA Optimus that switches between cpu graphics and the more powerfull nVIDIA graphics?

I´ve got a ASUS with Intel Core i5 2410m Sandy Bridge and separate nVIDIA Geforce GT540M.

Gratefull for any answers :)

[leigh123linux]

Fedora wouldn't do it even if they were responsible for it (It isn't a distro issue).

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items#NVIDIA_Accelerated_Graphics_Driver s

Complain here instead

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

[GP500]

Thanks for the info.
Hope things change concerning nVIDIA, just recently bought my computer so won´t be getting any new for a long time.

[marko]

Fedora wouldn't do it even if they were responsible for it (It isn't a distro issue).

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbid...aphics_Drivers (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items#NVIDIA_Accelerated_Graphics_Driver s)

Complain here instead

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 Yesterday 07:17 PMOptimus functionality could still possibly get:

1) pulled into Nouveau thus be allowed into Fedora official since that's open
2) put into the closed driver (that would only happen if Nvidia changes their mind and puts it in)

and there was a post on phoronix that a third party (Martin Juhl) has a basic driver called prime-ng that does Optimus but it only works on certain netbooks, I could imagine that getting fleshed out a bit

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTQxNg

http://www.martin-juhl.dk/2011/05/optimus-on-linux-problem-solved

[AdamW]

there wouldn't be a lot of point in Optimus / nouveau right now even if it worked, as nouveau generally performs worse than Intel...

if you're using an Optimus laptop with Fedora, I'd recommend one of two paths:

1) if you don't really need super-fast 3D, lock the system in Intel mode and use the open intel driver
2) if you really need super-fast 3D, lock the system in NVIDIA mode and use the proprietary nvidia driver

[marko]

there wouldn't be a lot of point in Optimus / nouveau right now even if it worked, as nouveau generally performs worse than Intel...

if you're using an Optimus laptop with Fedora, I'd recommend one of two paths:

1) if you don't really need super-fast 3D, lock the system in Intel mode and use the open intel driver
2) if you really need super-fast 3D, lock the system in NVIDIA mode and use the proprietary nvidia driver

I don't really mean that the Linux nouveau Optimus would actually do Optimus, I mean it would allow the laptop to work properly (ie not get super hot or wear the battery down on unnecessarily on a optimus laptop).

[AdamW]

I think that kinda depends on the specific implementation. The best thing to do is to disable the NVIDIA adapter and lock the system on the Intel adapter in the BIOS, if the BIOS allows you to do so. (On my Sony, I had to do a BIOS hack to enable this option).