Phoronix IRC Log: 2009-09-19

EvilGuru: I am looking to buy a new laptop, but most of the lenovo's I've been looking at have switchable graphics (intel & ati). How does this voodoo sit with X?
DarkDefender: i've heard that you can lock the cards in bios. But I don't know if you can switch GPU on the fly with xorg...
EvilGuru: DarkDefender: That was the impression I was getting also...
gimzo: Hi. I just installed pts (on archlinux 686, using pacman) and installed openarena test, and it's running on 1 fps, but when I run openarena directly (not from pts) works ok

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