Congratulations to the bumblebee team. I have finally been able to run optirun which is using the nvidia GPU.
Here's the specs:- baseboard-manufacturer: [sudo] password for realallen: MEDION baseboard-product-name: P7812 baseboard-version : To be filled by O.E.M. system-manufacturer : MEDION system-product-name : P7812 system-version : To be filled by O.E.M. bios-vendor : American Megatrends Inc. bios-version : 0.45 bios-release-date : 09/15/2011 realallen@allenb-P7812:~$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 11.10 \n \l realallen@allenb-P7812:~$ uname -a Linux allenb-P7812 3.0.0-19-generic-pae #33-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 19 20:59:10 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux realallen@allenb-P7812:~$ optirun -V optirun (Bumblebee) 3.0 Copyright (C) 2011 The Bumblebee Project License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html >. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. realallen@allenb-P7812:~$ And here's the proof:- realallen@allenb-P7812:~$ sudo optirun glxspheres Polygons in scene: 62464 Visual ID of window: 0x21 Context is Direct OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GT 555M/PCIe/SSE2 153.095357 frames/sec - 160.603153 Mpixels/sec realallen@allenb-P7812:~$ glxspheres Polygons in scene: 62464 Visual ID of window: 0xcc Context is Direct OpenGL Renderer: Software Rasterizer 9.102808 frames/sec - 9.549209 Mpixels/sec 9.099225 frames/sec - 9.545451 Mpixels/sec The GPU execution speed is about 18 times faster than the integrated Intel graphics. Fantastic. Cheers Allen Australia -- Did you know that a psycho-ceramic is a crackpot?
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