I finally have an Optimus netbook in my hands. I installed the packages in sabayonlinux.org. There are a few problems.
1 - The bbswitch module does not seem to work: 1215n-sabayon valentina # modprobe bbswitch FATAL: Error inserting bbswitch (/lib/modules/3.2.0-sabayon/kernel/drivers/acpi/bbswitch.ko): Invalid module format This does not allow to power down the discrete GPU when unused. Recompiling from our overlay makes this working, so I guess it just needs a recompilation. 2 - The user should be added to the group "bumblebee" in order to allow to run optirun 3 - I am able to run optirun correctly as root, but I have problem as regular user: valentina@1215n-sabayon ~ $ optirun --debug glxgears [DEBUG]Active configuration: [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /usr/local/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf [DEBUG] X display: :8 [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia:/usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy [DEBUG]optirun version 3.0 starting... [INFO]Response: Yes. X is active. [INFO]Running application through vglrun. [DEBUG]Process vglrun started, PID 9622. Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual [DEBUG]SIGCHILD received, but wait failed with No child processes [DEBUG]Socket closed. [DEBUG]Killing all remaining processes. I'll do deeper tests tomorrow. -- Ing. Dott. Danilo Pianini Site: http://www.danilopianini.org/ Phone: +39 320 41 36 573 Skype: dany.sk
