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| - | Bumblebee allows you to run specific programs on the discrete graphic card, inside of an X session using the integrated graphic card.
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| - | [http://www.martin-juhl.dk/ Martin Juhl] started with the project and published under GPL v3. To improve co-operation, some developers decided to fork the project into a team: [https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee Bumblebee-Project].
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| - | ===What it does - and does not===
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| - | Currently, Ubuntu and Arch Linux is supported by the installer. Work is in progress to support Fedora, Debian and OpenSUSE.
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| - | Arch Linux and Gentoo are support by:
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| - | * Arch Linux - ArchWiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee
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| - | * Gentoo - Iegor: https://github.com/iegor/bumblebee-Gentoo-support
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| - | Power management [https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/ACPI-Removed has temporary been disabled], but will be re-added later.
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| - | ===Installing it===
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| - | git clone git@github.com:Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee.git
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| - | cd Bumblebee
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| - | sudo ./cleanup
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| - | sudo ./install</pre>
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| - | ====Installing on Ubuntu====
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| - | If you're using Ubuntu, you can install Bumblebee from a PPA. If you've installed versions before 2.3 from ppa:mj-casalogic/bumblebee or MrMEEE/bumblebee, you've to run the cleanup script first:
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| - | wget https://raw.github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/master/cleanup
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| - | chmod +x cleanup
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| - | sudo ./cleanup
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| - | The nvidia drivers supplied with Natty and before may not support your graphics card. Therefore, add the PPA containing more recent drivers:
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| - | sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
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| - | Next, add the Bumblebee PPA:
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| - | sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
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| - | sudo apt-get update
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| - | sudo apt-get install bumblebee
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| - | ===Testing it===
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| - | You can compare display performances with and without bumblebee :
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| - | <pre>glxgears
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| - | optirun glxgears</pre>
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| - | Note: when running just glxgears, if you see this message:
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| - | <pre>Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
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| - | approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.</pre>
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| - | The FPS value will always be close to 60. Instead you should do:
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| - | <pre>vblank_mode=0 glxgears</pre>
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| - | ===Configure it===
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| - | On versions prior to 2.3, you had to run <tt>bumblebee-configuration</tt> to configure Bumblebee. Newer versions automatically detect the right version for you.
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| - | ===Uninstall it===
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| - | If you're really using an old version (from MrMEEE, versions prior to 2.3):
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| - | wget https://raw.github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/master/cleanup
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| - | chmod +x cleanup
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| - | sudo ./cleanup
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| - | In other cases, you need to run the following to uninstall Bumblebee:
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| - | bumblebee-uninstall
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| - | If you're using Ubuntu and have installed Bumblebee through the PPA, you can remove it with:
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| - | sudo apt-get remove bumblebee
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| - | ===Reporting bugs===
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| - | Run '''bumblebee-bugreport''' and follow the instructions, bugs or feature requests can be reported at https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues.
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| - | ==External Links==
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| - | * [https://lists.launchpad.net/hybrid-graphics-linux/msg01607.html 10 questions and answers on Bumblebee]
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| - | * [https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki Bumblebee Project's Wiki]
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| - | * [https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/blob/master/README Read me file]
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| - | * [https://twitter.com/Team_Bumblebee Bumblebee updates on Twitter]
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