On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 12:26 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 16:47:38 +0000, > "Powell, Michael" <michael_pow...@mentor.com> wrote: > > > >Unfortunately, solely relying on the integrated Intel GPU is not an option > >for me :) > > The 3.12 kernel is supposed to have better optimus support, so maybe things > will improve soon. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ0ODM >
Meanwhile, there is the Bumblebee project: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee. It offers partial support for Optimus. You can use the Intel driver as your main one and run individual programs on the nVidia GPU via a command-line wrapper program. There are still some issues (Fedora 18&19 require the nVidia binary driver at the moment, for example), but I had it functional until I tried to use an external monitor today. That can apparently be done, but one loses much of the utility (i.e., power management) of the dual-driver configuration. Not sure yet if I'm sticking with it, but I'll definitely be keeping my eye on it. -- 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://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users 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
