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Actually only Ubuntu (maybe Debian, Arch and Mint but not tested) is supported by this script, but Martin is working on to porting on other distros and make his script more distro-independent. For info about state of work in distro porting or to help in porting please see https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee/issues/7
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Actually only Ubuntu and Fedora(maybe Debian, Arch and Mint but not tested) is supported by this script, but Martin is working on to porting on other distros and make his script more distro-independent. For info about state of work in distro porting or to help in porting please see https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee/issues/7
Currently this application doesn't shut down the nvidia card when not used, nor balance the load between the two cards (cf README).
Currently this application doesn't shut down the nvidia card when not used, nor balance the load between the two cards (cf README).

Revision as of 17:53, 15 May 2011

Bumblebee allows you to run specific programs on the discrete graphic card, inside of an X session using the integrated graphic card. It's written by Martin Juhl and published under GPL v3.

Contents

What it does - and does not

Actually only Ubuntu and Fedora(maybe Debian, Arch and Mint but not tested) is supported by this script, but Martin is working on to porting on other distros and make his script more distro-independent. For info about state of work in distro porting or to help in porting please see https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee/issues/7

Currently this application doesn't shut down the nvidia card when not used, nor balance the load between the two cards (cf README).

Installing it

git clone https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee
cd bumblebee
./install.sh

Testing it

You can compare display performances with and without bumblebee :

glxgears
optirun64 glxgears

Reporting bugs

Use the bumblebee-bugreport script to create a nice bug report that you'll send here.

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