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I have a Dell Vostro with an ATI 6600m card running ubuntu 12.04. Putting "echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch" effectively boosts my battery tim
by sandGorgon 14y ago
I have a Dell Vostro with an ATI 6600m card running ubuntu 12.04.
Putting "echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch" effectively boosts my battery time from 1 hour to 3 hours.
What I'm seriously hoping from Valve is not a game per se, but a linux distro (or a standard) that is compatible with my drivers, multimedia devices (dual hdmi monitors - I'm looking at you) and audio/video.
I would pay serious money for that kind of a distro.
- jiggy2011 14y agoI don't think Yet Another Desktop Distro is really the answer to our prayers. If fixing your laptop battery is as simple as that one liner , perhaps your can write a script that detects hardware at startup and runs that line if appropriate and then submit it back to Ubuntu?
- helmut_hed 14y agoa linux distro (or a standard) that is compatible with my drivers, multimedia devices (dual hdmi monitors - I'm looking at you) and audio/video yes, that would be great! Major distros (I use Kubuntu) are understaffed and concentrate on getting the new features from their upstreams integrated, not on making sure fancy hardware is supported. It's a question of resources. Although I think Valve is less likely than a hardware vendor to have a business reason for doing this work.