Comment 3 for bug 312756
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| pdf (pdffs) wrote Re: support graphics card hot switch | #3 |
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Hot switching video cards on linux will not be possible without a restart of X - the mechanism just doesn't exist at this time. So, we won't be able to reproduce what Vista does without huge code changes in X. What we can hope for is to get the nVidia card to initialise when both cards are presented by the BIOS, or to emulate what the platform drivers do on Windows XP to convince the BIOS that it should only activate the card denoted by the state of the killswitch.