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geet000

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Registered: 2014-10-30

Posts: 2

Setting up vdpau in nvidia optimus laptops

Hi,

I have purchased a laptop with nvidia optimus with integrated intel graphic card.
I want to setup vdpau in it.
My nvidia card is GEFORCE GT 840M.
I have installed nvidia proprietery drivers and bumblebee.
Output of vdpauinfo:
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display:0 screen:0
Error creating VDPAU device:1
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Please help me.

bhante

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Registered: 2008-05-20

Posts: 22

Re: Setting up vdpau in nvidia optimus laptops

Bumblebee does not offer VDPAU offloading, only OpenGL offloading.

For vdpau, install the modesetting and nvidia drivers. [ Ref:  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus]

geet000

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Registered: 2014-10-30

Posts: 2

Re: Setting up vdpau in nvidia optimus laptops

oh i see. then i will try that and let you know.

Thanks