NVIDIA Optimus

[Bret Busby]

On 27/03/2016, Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> someone successfully installed the latest DragonFly BSD on a laptop with
> NVidia Optimus Technology?
>
> Thanks for any pointers...
>
> --
> Fragen sind nicht da um beantwortet zu werden,
> Fragen sind da um gestellet zu werden
> Gerog Kreisler
>

Hello.

See the message below.

I do not know whether the status of DragonflyBSD has changed,
regarding the nVIDIA stuff.

The only way I was able to get my system working, was with Ubuntu
Linux; I am currently running UbuntuMATE 15.10, and 16.04 is due out
in about a month.


-- 

Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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 you'll know what the answer means."
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 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Markus Pfeiffer <markus.pfeiffer at morphism.de>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 10:10:52 +0100
Subject: Re: Questions about current stable version of dragonflybsd
regarding drivers and desktop environment
To: Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com>
Cc: users at dragonflybsd.org

Dear Bret,

On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 02:17:56PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have an Acer V3-772G laptop computer that has an Intel Haswell
> i7-4702QM CPU and integrated Intel HD Graphics 4600 graphics controller,
> and an nvidia GEForce GT750M graphics device, and the system has 32GB of
> RAM.
>
> Please advise as to whether the current stable version of dragonflybsd, has
> drivers available for the above system.

The haswell cpu and graphics hardware is quite well supported, and as long as
you don't want to suspend or hibernate, power management is decent as well.

There certainly is no real support for NVIDIA graphics devices, and I do not
know how our setup fares with dual graphics adapters. There's really only one
way to find out: Try.

But as I said, if you want to actually use the nivida, you'll have to find
someone who ports the whole nvidia driver infrastructure to dfly.

Cheers,

Markus


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