Pascal,
thank you for your input. There are no options in my BIOS for disabling
graphics, so I can't do that. As for HDMI, I don't use an external monitor
for editing. I don't yet know if my use of HDMI will be affected, it's a
minor concern anyway. Right now I only hope that someone with specific
knowledge of the phrase '[opencl_init] could not get platforms: -1001' will
comment. Meanwhile I continue my research.

Hans Petter

http://hpbirkeland.com

2014-10-30 15:45 GMT+01:00 Pascal Obry <[email protected]>:

> 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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