Le dimanche 12 février 2017, 20:17:07 CET Bruno Pagani a écrit : > Hi, > > Thanks for thinking about libglvnd support in Arch. ;) > > Le 12/02/2017 à 19:22, Laurent Carlier via arch-dev-public a écrit : > > Bumblebee will not work anymore with Nvidia and Mesa, but only with prime > > (1). > This sentence doesn’t really make sense. Bumblebee doesn’t work with > PRIME, they are two different solutions to Optimus support under Linux. > Some more correct statements: >
Doh, yes, really badly worded. I had the wild idea that bumblebee wasn't supporting libglvnd, and i was wrong. > – Bumblebee will still work with VirtualGL, but some changes will be > required for primus [1] (I’m not sure since I did not have time to test > it yet, but it could be as simple as patching bumblebee/primusrun for > exporting __GLVND_DISALLOW_PATCHING=1 when running optirun with primus > or primusrun, anyway I asked the person who fixed it in Fedora what > changes this has required); > > – what will change with Nvidia PRIME support is that it would be easier > to switch from a X server running on Intel to a one running on Nvidia, > like nvidia-prime allows on Ubuntu, because you won’t have to switch > libgl packages on-the-fly. That’s a big win from an usability POV. > > > Nvidia-340xx driver will still work with bumblebee but will need a > > specific > > (non libglvnd?) Mesa version. > > Hum… What makes nvidia-340xx situation different from nvidia-304xx, and > without even talking of Bumblebee, does it even work with libglvnd? > AFAIK, the support was introduced in 361 series, and wasn’t backported > to the 340xx branch. > yes, nvidia-340xx doesn't provide any libglvnd support, and i don't know if it's planned > Regarding Bumblebee, I don’t think it would require anything specific, > but I should be able to test that and work around once everything will > have landed. ;) > Thanks Bruno for explaination about bumblebee situation > Regards, > Bruno > > [1] https://github.com/amonakov/primus/issues/193 -- Laurent Carlier http://www.archlinux.org
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