El sáb, 18-02-2012 a las 01:49 +0100, Danilo Pianini escribió: > 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 > >
Personally I am still running *old* bumblebee (not rewritten one) for my optimus laptop. Probably should try new one (but haven't had enough time for that yet :S). Do you have any idea about how more "popular" distributions (like Fedora, OpenSuSE, Ubuntu...) are currently handling optimus cards? Thanks
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
