Nvidia Optimus Bumblebee
Both packages can be used with nvidia or nouveau drivers.
Nvidia optimus bumblebee. If you want the bleeding edge in development version you can install bumblebee git. Bumblebee has significant performance issues. Bumblebee is an effort to make nvidia optimus enabled laptops work in gnu linux systems. Once bumblebee and proprietary nvidia drivers are installed the menu entry to launch nvidia settings utility is automatically created.
Such feature involves two graphics cards with two different power consumption profiles plugged in a layered way sharing a single framebuffer. Install package bumblebee from aur. Release notes this version fixes the main issue of bumblebee 3 2. The proprietary nvidia graphics drivers.
The bumblebee project proudly presents version 3 2 1 of bumblebee a project aiming to support nvidia optimus technology under linux. Any attempt to run nvidia settings utility with a different syntax will fail. Bumblebee 3 2 1 has been released on 26 april 2013. In step 4 login as root and only install bumblebee apt get install bumblebee nvidia all the drivers and dependencies are included in bumblebee nvidia.
Fedora recommends the use of free and open source software and avoidance of software encumbered by patents. It is called nvidia x server settings in the menu. This is a guide to configuring a gentoo system to make use of hybrid graphics using. This page discusses third party software sources not officially affiliated with or endorsed by the fedora project.
Use them at your own discretion. Ubuntu nvidia optimus setup install bumblebee and nvidia drivers updated december 31 2017 by arnab satapathi if you re looking for how to setup nvidia optimus in ubuntu linux mint to harness that crazy gpu in your laptop then you re in the right place. After step 6 but before step 7 run systemctl set default graphical target to enable gui again and follow the next steps. The command is the only correct way to execute nvidia settings on optimus computers.