Le jeudi 30 octobre 2014 à 15:07 +0100, Hans Petter Birkeland a écrit :
> Michael,
> I don't understand what you mean. One can not use Bumblebee without a
> driver. When installing Bumblebee and Bumblebee-nvidia, the Nvidia 304
> driver is installed by default. This driver has no support for my GTX
> 850M card, so I have to use 337 or newer.
I come late into the discussion and I did not read the whole thread...
sorry if this has already been said.
I've tried Bumblebee some time ago and was able to make it working with
my Debian box. But the HDMI was not working properly, so no external
screen for my photo editing. I'm using a big external screen when
editing my pictures, so it was not an option.
I decided to disable the Intel card directly from the BIOS and using
only the NVDIA proprietary driver. With such configuration you do not
need Bumblebee at all. If your BIOS make this possible you should
consider using this option.
This dual card thing is to save power... Well maybe, without using this
power saving mode my notebook still run for 3h on the battery.
I've recently tried to use nvidia-prime (equivalent to Bumblebee but
only available on Ubuntu) on a Ubuntu box of a friend. I must say that
the configuration was painful and even if the HDMI output displays
something I've never been able to setup the primary vs secondary screen
properly. That is, the external screen was forced to be the primary
one... All this to say that this Optimus support is not quite ready for
standard used on GNU/Linux.
A. Just wanted to share my experiences.
Regards,
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