So Bumblebee and fglrx doesn't work, but does it work with radeon open source drivers? For example, hybrid intel+AMD ATI, using open source radeon and Bumblebee.
Il giorno sab, 18/02/2012 alle 10.55 +0100, Danilo Pianini ha scritto: > They do not handle hybrid graphics currently, Bumblebee and Ironhide > are the way for nVidia cards while fglrx should offer support (but X > restart is required, and it currently does not work for me not in mux > neither in muxless configurations). > > 2012/2/18 Pacho Ramos <[email protected]>: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > -- Lorenzo Cogotti
