Nvidia Linux Bumblebee

Bumblebee is officially supported by ubuntu in 14 04 newer.

Nvidia linux bumblebee. Step 7 can be eliminated installing package bumblebee nvidia takes care of keeping the default opengl library in place. Advantage of bumblebee over other solutions like nvidia prime is you can run one many specific application using the discrete nvidia gpu without restarting the current x. Bumblebee aims to provide support for nvidia optimus laptops for gnu linux distributions. Bbswitch is the kernel module used to turn off and on the discrete nvidia gpu and non free nvidia optimus linux drivers are the proprietary gpu drivers provided by nvidia.

Install package bumblebee from aur. If you want to use nvidia prime and you still want to have bumblebee installed on your system look at this script. Such feature involves two graphics cards with two different power consumption profiles plugged in a layered way sharing a single framebuffer. Bumblebee 3 2 1 has been released on 26 april 2013.

Bumblebee is an open source implementation of nvidia optimus. Using bumblebee you can use your nvidia card for rendering graphics which will be displayed using the intel card. If you want the bleeding edge in development version you can install bumblebee git. For 32 bit applications on 64 bit systems you must install lib32 virtualgl and relevant lib32 libraries.

This is a guide to configuring a gentoo system to make use of hybrid graphics using. Generally i use bumblebee it s better solution for me than logging out every time when i want to use nvidia card. Both packages can be used with nvidia or nouveau drivers. Bumblebee is an effort to make nvidia optimus enabled laptops work in gnu linux systems.

The proprietary nvidia graphics drivers. Release notes this version fixes the main issue of bumblebee 3 2. Bumblebee aims to provide support for nvidia optimus laptops for gnu linux distributions. Using bumblebee you can use your nvidia card for rendering graphics which will be displayed using the intel card.

Bumblebee nvidia depends on package bumblebee which in turn depends on primus so you can just swap apt get install bumblebee primus with apt get install bumblebee in step 4 and get rid of step 7.