[ubuntu-x] Hybrid graphics detection

Bryce Harrington bryce at canonical.com
Thu Nov 3 16:38:25 UTC 2011


On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 12:08:53PM -0400, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 08:50 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > > > Would it make sense to make that into a udev rule?
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure that a udev rule would have the necessary context, but
> > > either a udev rule or an upstart script would absolutely make sense.
> > 
> > Would any context be needed beyond loaded kernel gfx driver(s) and
> > machine identification info?
> 
> I don't believe so, no.  But if we're writing a udev rule that needs to
> be triggered on a udev event, and I'm not sure whether there's a udev
> event that we can rely on to happen at an appropriate time.
> 
> Right?

At this point we should probably talk to slangasek about it.

Bryce



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