On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 12:53:10 PM behrouz khosravi wrote: > > What would you consider better support? > > The way it works currently is how it's working with MS Windows (as > > provided by > > NVidia). > > What I mean by better support is easy install and configuration. In the > Windows > I just install the driver and the driver is responsible for offloading or > switching the chips. > I spent a couple of hours to configure it and gave up, because it is not > easy to configure or > even easy to troubleshoot.
It is still easy: emerge bumblebee rc-update add bumblebee default That's all I did and it works. With Linux, I just add "optirun " in front of the command in the program-menu item. On MS Windows, I need to: 1) Start the program 2) Stop the program 3) Configure the driver to use the NVidia chipset for the program (It doesn't show in the list before I start it once) And for a lot of these, I need to redo it every time I update the drivers. > > A single GPU makes things simpler, but being able to have the best of both > > options: > > 1) Intel = low power = long battery life > > 2) Nvidia = good quality 3D, but shorter battery life > > > > The NVidia chip is actually switched off when not being used. (Or if not, > > I > > wouldn't notice as the battery life is significantly better after > > installing > > bumblebee and running the bumblebee service.) > > Thats right for the current setup, but it is possible to have a laptop with > a powerful Intel GPU, right? If there is a powerful Intel GPU. But those don't come close to the specs NVidia and ATI put into the real GPUs. -- Joost
