On Tuesday 19 March 2013 01:35 AM, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> # Need functions from primus libGL to take precedence
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${PRIMUS_libGL}${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
> That line was already uncommented out in the script shipped by the package...
Oh!! I must have missed that.> >> Yes. But I have ensure always that I review the config file. And in my >> opinion, the defaults should be KeepUnusedXServer=false > I suppose a better way of explaining why watching /proc/acpi/bbswitch > isn't reliable is by referencing the differences between how the > virtualgl and primus backends work. Virtualgl will always cause the > secondary X server to be spawned (everything is rendered on the > secondary X server before being displayed on the primary X server), > whereas primus will only offload glx calls to bumblebee, thus the > secondary X server will only start up when you run some sort of opengl > application with primus. That means that "optirun bash" or "optirun > xterm" will invariably turn on the secondary X server and the nvidia > gpu, whereas "primusrun bash" or "primusrun xterm" (or some other > application that doesn't use any glx calls) will not. Thanks for explaining this. >> I will try to update all the packages now and see the final results. >> Looks like you guys have pushed some updates today. > Please do test out my changes, but also please don't upload the > packages yet. I want to sort out the conffiles issue [1] first... > No worries. I myself would prefer if Aron (or someone else from the current pkg-nvidia team) reviews and does the upload. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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