[wplug] Video issues on Lenovo Thinkpad W520 with Fedora 23

[justin at adminix.net]

That's what I had to do with my W530. I keep it on the Intel graphics
most of the time since the nVidia GPU chew up battery life much faster. 

FYI, Pat - there's a project called "Bumblebee" aimed at providing
switching graphics functionality on Linux, but I've never been able to
get it to work properly. http://bumblebee-project.org/ 

It's been a while since I tried messing around with it, though. If I
remember correctly, the main drawback at the time was that the system
won't automatically switch between GPUs on its own; you need to specify
the preferences for particular applications, and I simply didn't want to
do that.

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JUSTIN SMITH 
Linux System Administrator 

On 2016-06-16 10:14, Pat Barron wrote:

> It seems that it is indeed possible to that, and doing so appears to have resolved the problem.  It doesn't seem to matter if I select it for integrated graphics mode, or discrete graphics mode, as long as I pick one.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --Pat.
> 
> On 6/16/2016 8:21 AM, G.Pitman wrote: 
> 
>> Can you disable optimus in the bios?
> 
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