Hello, On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:36 AM, mik firestone <[email protected]> wrote: > I have just received a new laptop and I am running into problems with e17, > e18 and e19. > > The laptop has the GeForce GTX 860M, which means I have to deal with > Optimus. > > If I try to work w/ bumblebee, I get a warning when I start e saying my > card doesn't support OpenGL. This makes sense, I think, because you have to > run each application via optimus to use the Nvidia chip. The wm itself is > running on the intel chip. > > If I do the more recent xrandr configurations, I get a mostly blank screen. > Mostly. Because I can see the pointer, and if I click it changes color. But > nothing else is shown on the screen. > > I can try to provide more information if required, but I am mostly curious > to know if anybody else has gotten e18 or e19 to work using the second > method. It is a big laptop with a lot of disk and the battery life will be > close to 0 regardless of what tricks I pull with the graphics. Failing > that, does anybody know the proper invocations/methods/whatever to start > e18 or e19 such that the nvidia chip is always being used via bumblebee?
I have not setup this configuration yet on my laptop, but I have seen a presentation from Nouveau's developer on how to do it. My understanding so far is that you want to use your Intel chipset for Enlightenment and NVidia chipset for the demanding application. I don't know which setup you are following, nor which distribution, but Arch Linux as a pretty good article describing the setup process : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bumblebee . I think by default the configuration should push everything to Intel GPU, so I am wondering what is going with your setup and why it is not working that way. Maybe you will have to modify the enlightenment.desktop. -- Cedric BAIL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
