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Thoughts and rambling on the X protocol

9 pointsby obsaysdittoalmost 15 years ago

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levesquealmost 15 years ago
Here's one example that Xorg needs to be updated, if not redesigned.<p>Many recent laptops bear two graphic cards (ex: Asus u30jc, ul30a), one which is an on-board, weak card that will do the light work and one discrete card which is there for high-definition videos and 3D. The OS should control the activation of those cards using a switch (for NVidia it's called optimus). The point is to save battery life while staying performant.<p>X does not support the live swapping of video cards (not without restarting, at least). According to the dev guys, we're not going to see that supported until <i>one or two years</i>. And of course, since xorg does not support the switching, Nvidia won't design any drivers for linux - why would they do all the work?