On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 15:23 +0100, James Hogarth wrote: > On 8 June 2016 at 14:43, Matthew Saltzman <m...@clemson.edu> wrote: > > > > > Apparently, the latest release of Bumblebee has dropped support for > > the > > nouveau driver. Installing the latest primus package from the > > bumblebee > > repo requires removing bumblebee-nouveau and installing bumblebee- > > nvidia. I haven't seen an announcement to that effect, but there is > > a > > bug report at the Bumblebee repo suggesting that that's the > > direction > > they are going. > > > > Is there a good, up to date summary of the state of Optimus support > > for > > Linux and Fedora, both open-source and proprietary? Anyone have > > in- > > depth experience with Dell (Latitude E6430) implementation and a > > recommendation for the best way to proceed? > > > > One point in particular: I have a docking station, but I've never > > been > > able to get video out when docked. Has anyone succeeded in getting > > that > > working? > > > > > > > The discussion which lead to that is here: > https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/773 > > On my 960m (F24 and 4.6+ kernel required) doing DRI_PRIME=1 ./foo > "worked" > (as in it used the discrete GPU and performance was moderate) ... > it's just > limited by the lack of reclocking in the driver for that chipset yet.
That's just with a vanilla Fedora install, no Bumblebee, I take it. > > If using the proprietary NV driver for optimus then you can follow > the > Bumblebee wiki page fine, but you have to use the managed repo for a > recent > driver. > > As to video out when docked, sorry I don't have a docking station to > test > (much less that specific Dell model). > > > > TL;DR: > If using nouveau (or modesetting as the direction seems to be going > for the > FOSS driver) just use PRIME and not bumblebee ... only use bumblebee > when > using the nv driver. Thanks. I will experiment. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
