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<div>Bumblebee allows you to run specific programs on the discrete graphic card, inside of an X session using the integrated graphic card.<br />
[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].<br />
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===What it does - and does not===<br />
Currently, Ubuntu and Arch Linux is supported by the installer. Work is in progress to support Fedora, Debian and OpenSUSE.<br />
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Arch Linux and Gentoo are support by:<br />
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* Arch Linux - ArchWiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee<br />
* Gentoo - Iegor: https://github.com/iegor/bumblebee-Gentoo-support<br />
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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.<br />
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===Installing it===<br />
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git clone git@github.com:Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee.git<br />
cd Bumblebee<br />
sudo ./cleanup<br />
sudo ./install</pre><br />
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====Installing on Ubuntu====<br />
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:<br />
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wget https://raw.github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/master/cleanup<br />
chmod +x cleanup<br />
sudo ./cleanup<br />
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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:<br />
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates<br />
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Next, add the Bumblebee PPA:<br />
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable<br />
sudo apt-get update<br />
sudo apt-get install bumblebee<br />
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===Testing it===<br />
You can compare display performances with and without bumblebee :<br />
<pre>glxgears<br />
optirun glxgears</pre><br />
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Note: when running just glxgears, if you see this message:<br />
<pre>Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be<br />
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.</pre><br />
The FPS value will always be close to 60. Instead you should do: <br />
<pre>vblank_mode=0 glxgears</pre><br />
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===Configure it===<br />
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.<br />
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===Reporting bugs===<br />
Run '''bumblebee-bugreport''' and follow the instructions, bugs or feature requests can be reported at https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues.<br />
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==External Links==<br />
* [https://lists.launchpad.net/hybrid-graphics-linux/msg01607.html 10 questions and answers on Bumblebee]<br />
* [https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki Bumblebee Project's Wiki]<br />
* [https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/blob/master/README Read me file]<br />
* [https://twitter.com/Team_Bumblebee Bumblebee updates on Twitter]</div>57.90.36.29