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#1 2011-07-18 00:31:05

samsagax
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Registered: 2011-03-18
Posts: 34

Call for testing: Bumblebee on nouveau driver

Hi there:
        For some time now I was trying to make Bumblebee compatible with the open Nouveau driver. I had better luck than my expectations and I want to test this on as many laptops as we can. The instructions can be found in the "nouveau" branch of my GiHub repo:
https://github.com/Samsagax/bumblebee/tree/nouveau
Please try to test it and report back on a GitHub issue. Currently this has been tested on ArchLinux but it has been made as distro-independent as I was able.
To add some spice to this, I've been testing vga-switcheroo switches and in  simple script it is able to find on itself the correct ACPI methods to call to turn ON/OFF the nVidia card and it's safe, no side effects (as far as I'm aware), and distro-independent. The only "down-side" is that it works on nouveau driver only.

Hope this could be helpfull in some way. And thanks in advance to all.

If you don't know what Bumblebee is and want to learn more, here is a wiki article.

Edited: For Arch users, here is an AUR package

Last edited by samsagax (2011-07-19 07:19:51)

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