[Enquiry] Does it switch on the fly?

andrebrait / prime-indicator

PRIME Indicator Plus - enhanced indicator applet for NVIDIA Optimus laptops

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[Enquiry] Does it switch on the fly? #29

Open lf-araujo opened 6 years ago

lf-araujo commented 6 years ago

I am unsure about the description of this package.

Does it monitors the state of the GPU and switch it off when not in use?
Does it works in Ubuntu 17.10?

Thank you.

andrebrait commented 6 years ago

The power management isn't that important anymore as Ubuntu has fixed their GPU Manager service. PRIME Indicator polls every N seconds if your GPU is turned on and if it's in Intel mode (which means GPU Manager screwed up) and the power management option is enabled, it tries to turn it off. If any of these conditions aren't true, it leaves the card as it is.

It most likely works on 17.10.