Showing posts with label dual graphic card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dual graphic card. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Nvidia Optimus in linux

This Nvidia Optimus technology is a whole new ball game for me, my laptop has two graphics cards, and depending on the requirements, it uses one or another, luckily there is a Linux project called Bumblebee to make it work
To install it, add this next lines to /etc/apt/source.list

#bumblebee Nvidia optimus
deb http://suwako.nomanga.net/debian sid main contrib
deb-src http://suwako.nomanga.net/debian sid main

Execute the following commands as root

wget -O - http://suwako.nomanga.net/suwako.asc | apt-key add -
aptitude update 
aptitude install nvidia-glx linux-headers-$(uname -r) nvidia-kernel-dkms
sudo update-alternatives --set glx /usr/lib/mesa-diverted 
aptitude install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia
adduser $USER bumblebee ($USER is your regular X user)
reboot
 
Make a test
 
optirun glxgears -info
 
 
Source:
http://bumblebee-project.org/
https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee#Installation
http://suwako.nomanga.net/