On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 07:16:54 AM Erik Mackdanz wrote: > "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> writes: > > On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 05:46:30 PM Erik Mackdanz wrote: > >> Heiko Baums <li...@baums-on-web.de> writes: > >> > I don't know if, but I don't think that, it will work with > >> > x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau. > >> > >> I used bumblebee for quite a while. It worked okay, but every upgrade I > >> would have to fiddle with it again. > >> > >> I switched to the Nouveau driver and I'm very glad I did. "Conventional > >> wisdom" says Nouveau quality is lower than Nvidia, but I found it worked > >> better on some things (Second Life). > >> > >> As someone else pointed out, with Nouveau the GPU remains on all the > >> time consuming power. This is the downside. > >> > >> If ease-of-use and/or open licensing are more important to you than top > >> rendering quality and power consumption, consider using Nouveau. > > > > I've been using bumblebee for over a year now. (First laptop with Optimus) > > and not had any issues. It always works as advertised. > > > > What issues did you experience? > > I remember more than once changing bumblebee.conf during an upgrade, > when the service failed to start. This is over two years ago now, so I > don't remember any more than that.
A lot can happen in 2 years. (For instance a fork and complete re-write of the codebase) > You could tell me that bumblebee is now stable and rock-solid, but I > still wouldn't switch from Nouveau. I've had a good experience, and > open source matters to me. Bumblebee also seems to support Nouveau. > On top of that, this laptop has only a year or so left before I replace > it, and I know now to avoid Optimus entirely in the future. That is your choice, I like the idea behind it and have no issues with the way it currently works. -- Joost
