Friday, January 6, 2012

Nvidia Optimus hybrid graphic

By David Bros


Optimus is produced by the maker nVidia for laptops. It aims to strike an account balance between life of the battery and graphics performance.

Optimus is really a technology that actually works on the software and hardware.

Technically, It uses two graphics card: IGP (Integrated Graphics Processor) integrated graphics around the motherboard, low energy consumption but additionally less efficient and GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), the dedicated graphics card, but powerful greedy. Optimus goes in one to a different with respect to the user's needs: graphics power or energy conservation.

In line with the Linux community, Optimus just isn't fitted to the architecture of Linux, particularly according to the display server , aging and incompatible with all the change "hot" device-specific display Optimus.When you might be functioning using a display, you could encounter numerous errors, glitches, and quirks, find out a lot more about nv4_disp.dll error.

Since it stands, the laptops built with Linux, merely the IGP will be exploitable, with disappointing performance in comparison with that relating to a lot of the GPU. However, the GPU will continue to be powered, decreasing the autonomy while remaining unusable.

However, it is possible to disable the dedicated graphics card on many laptop using a module called acpi_call which the installation is detailed on a site dedicated to the development of English support for hybrid graphics cards: Linux-hybrid-graphics . Using this module allows to save energy (in practice a few watts) but does not use the dedicated graphics card is not powered.

There are also Bumblebee, another small program that automatically shuts down the nVidia card and turn it on when you want to start a game for example, or any other application, thereby enjoying the battery life and the power of the NVIDIA driver through the owner when the user wishes.

Currently, nVidia has offered no Linux driver for your support of Optimus. And they just don't want to develop .

Optimus is really a relatively recent technology (launched early 2010), the job from the community continue to be experimental. For the time being, no reliable option would be applicable.




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