I was thinking this was indeed a possibility. Thanks for the information and, indeed, X.org must indeed try an approach to hybrid graphcs/optimus support in the future.
2011/6/2 Daniel Hauck <[email protected]> > The way I understand it, this technique is essentially using a "remote > desktop" technology to access rendered output that would otherwise not be > displayed on a monitor. Basically, "run this program and display it on > 'this' screen... now copy 'this' screen to the current display." And since > it is being addressed this way, only whole windows can go. > > Now, there are video overlay techniques that have been used for a very long > time that essentially uses dedicated hardware to render video and then > passes it through the display hardware through a rectangle of specified > size, shape and location. What we need is THAT. If we could use the same > means as V4L to pipe the rendered graphics from memory to the active > display, then this jpeg stream will not be needed and we should see an even > better performance increase. > > All of this likely needs lower level work in the X.org project. I recently > looked over at what they are doing at X.org about this and so far, it seems > like no notice of the hybrid graphics/optimus problem has been taken. > > This optirun/bumblebee thing is "the way forward." I have little doubt > about that. But it needs to move into the X.org project in some way. This > is beyond some clever scripting and utilization of existing technologies > which I consider to be "proof of concept." And as proof of concept is > concerned, I would say it is proof positive. > > > On 06/02/2011 05:36 AM, Stephen Brooks wrote: > >> Héctor, >> >> I suspect vglrun only works for stand alone apps as opposed to embedded >> windows as used by plugin, so perhaps this is not possible? I don't have >> much knowledge of vgl before using bumblebee so I can't help much at this >> I'm afraid. >> >> Regards, >> Steve >> >> On 01/06/11 15:25, Héctor Franqui wrote: >> >>> @Bilal Akhtar: I tried installing Google Chrome and the running it with >>> optirun64. It worked fine, however I can't activate OpenGL mode in Runescape >>> anyway. Can you activate OpenGL mode? Because software mode isn't that good. >>> >>> @Stephen Brooks: Your solution seems to be what I was looking for, but >>> then again, I don't know if the game can't detect that the Nvidia card is >>> running because it defaults to software mode, it doesn't allows me to use >>> OpenGL. Anyway, I think I got something wrong with bumblebee. I will >>> Investigate further to check this out. >>> >>> Thanks for your help. >>> >>> 2011/5/31 Stephen Brooks <[email protected] <mailto: >>> [email protected]>> >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I suspect you need to wrap the java_vm binary. I used a >>> similar trick in the past to run it via aoss. I'm not on my >>> laptop at the moment so this is all untested, might just work >>> can't think why it wouldn't. >>> >>> Find and change to your java_vm directory ("locate java_vm" >>> should help) >>> >>> For me is: >>> >>> cd /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin >>> >>> sudo mv java_vm java_vm_orig >>> >>> sudo touch java_vm >>> sudo chmod a+x java_vm >>> sudo vi java_vm >>> >>> Insert and save: >>> >>> #!/bin/bash >>> exec optirun64 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java_vm_orig >>> >>> Probably need to restart your browser to cleanly exit any >>> currently running java_vm. Let us know if it works :) >>> >>> Regards, >>> Steve >>> >>> >>> On 30/05/11 21:13, Héctor Franqui wrote: >>> >>>> Nope, I was thinking the same, but I can't activate the OpenGL >>>> mode, it remains on Software mode wihich works kind of laggy. Or >>>> perhaps the game doesn't supports OpenGL with VirtualGL. Just >>>> wondering. In Windows I fixed that by adding Java to the list of >>>> programs that runs with Nvidia, nonetheless in Linux I can't do >>>> that since the Firefox plugin seems to call directly the java >>>> executable and doesn't allow any launcher/shortcut that calls >>>> optirun and Java. >>>> >>>> 2011/5/30 Martin Juhl <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Wont launching the browser with optirun work???? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> *Fra: *"Héctor Franqui" <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> >>>> >>>> *Til: *[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> >>>> *Sendt: *mandag, 30. maj 2011 20:04:57 >>>> *Emne: *[Hybrid-graphics-linux] Loading a web java applet >>>> with optirun64/bumblebee >>>> >>>> >>>> One of my primary objectives for enabling the NVIDIA card on >>>> Linux is to play a Java-based online game named Runescape. >>>> The game has HD graphics which only run well with the NVIDIA >>>> turned on, however I'm currently unable to call Java with >>>> optirun64. I think this is because Firefox uses the Java >>>> plugin as intermediary and so I can't create a shortcut or >>>> launcher which calls optirun and Java in order for the later >>>> to be accelerated. 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