tutorial suggestion : nvidia optimus on linux?

[kuzko]

Hello everyone !

I have been tinkering with my laptop and gone through a few days of research to get it flawlessly running games, and because of all the mess i've gone through, I though that it might help to get a pretty decent tutorial on how to get the best out of optimus laptops on linux.

I got notes about the points of struggling and it would be aimed to people that broke everything like i did...

(yeah, from a black screen you can get to TF2/metro last light 60 FPS no tearing... hell yeah !)

let me know if It might interest you or you find the idea good because i'm not going to do something that would be useless...

[Xaring]

Im not sure about it being too usefull here, but im sure than o the Linux Forums It will be of interest

 

You can make it here and repost in another forum i guess. The linux community is evergrowing,

[pdawg]

You are talking about the Bumblebee drivers for Linux, correct?

[ManWithBeard1990]

You are talking about the Bumblebee drivers for Linux, correct?

 

Long story short, in Ubuntu, all you need to do is the following:

 

sudo apt-add-repository 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bumblebee/stable/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main'

with the version being the name, like quantal, raring, saucy or trusty

 

sudo apt-get update

 

sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia primus

 

Next run the application you wish to use with discrete graphics by executing the command with the word "primusrun" in front of it.

 

In the future this will no longer be necessary and proper support from nVidia themselves will be implemented. But for now this is a fix.

[pdawg]

In the future this will no longer be necessary and proper support from nVidia themselves will be implemented. But for now this is a fix.

 

Nice, thanks! I have actually done this before, with limited success. The new intel chips coming out with onboard graphics also will have support in Linux.