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inigyouyesterday at 6:18 PM1 replyview on HN

I have a laptop where you need to load a certain driver to turn off the discrete GPU, which triples the idle battery life.


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cogman10yesterday at 6:51 PM

Yeah, I have this problem. IIRC the last time I looked into it, it requires a specific version of the nVidia driver which isn't the latest version (very unfortunately). I just bit the bullet and went with the 5W of constant consumption rather than figure out how to get that old driver working with my setup.