Hybrid Graphics

[Nils Holland]

Warren Block wrote:

> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=20664&highlight=optimus

Great, so I'm not the only one! ;-)

I guess both of the GPUs I have in the machine would work fine by themselves 
(they do under X11 under Linux, don't know about acceleration, because I 
don't care too much about it). Furthermore, I've noticed that the Linux 
folks have actually created a "linux-hybridgraphics" mailing list which 
deals exactly with the problems I'm seeing, but (of course) from a Linux 
standpoint. It seems that under Linux, at least one GPU works out of the 
box, and that they have experimental code for switching between GPUs at 
runtime (presumably while X11 isn't running, don't know).

I'm going to see and try what I can learn and do to enable this kind of 
behavior under FreeBSD. Not that I'm the biggest kernel hacker, but I'm 
hoping that this issue is easy enough for me. ;-)

Greetings,
Nils