You may try to: - delete your xorg.conf - run aticonfig --initial - run aticonfig --pxl - see which card is enabled and set eselect opengl accordingly - reboot and pray - if X starts, you can run amdcccle and select which card you want to use :)
It didn't work for me, however. 2012/2/18 Lorenzo Cogotti <[email protected]>: > Thank you for the explaination, I asked because I had some users with > AMD hybrid graphics having issues with that, so I wanted to know if > whether bumblebee could work with radeon open source drivers or was tied > to Nvidia + Intel. > I hope the situation with AMD hybrid to improve in the future, thanks to > this project. > > Il giorno sab, 18/02/2012 alle 13.23 -0500, Danilo Pianini ha scritto: >> Wait! >> Bumblebee is for nVidia muxless graphics (Optimus), since nVidia does >> not offer any support for it. Despite the mechanism is pretty generic >> and should work for every muxless configuration, it currently works >> for nVidia only. So it's pointless (currently) to use it on an AMD >> configuration. >> >> AMD also have hybrid graphics, and, differently from nVidia, they >> offer support in fglrx. Mux graphics have worked very well with fglrx >> from 10.6 to 10.8, then they inexplicably drop the support. Muxless >> should work flawlessly, but they don't, they throw a segfault on Intel >> drivers (I recently tested with S8 XFCE). >> >> So: >> * nVidia Optimus --> Bumblebee >> * ATI muxed --> No way, use Intel >> * ATI muxless --> Fglrx, in theory >> >> 2012/2/18 Lorenzo Cogotti <[email protected]>: >> > 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 >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> > > -- > Lorenzo Cogotti > > > -- Ing. Dott. Danilo Pianini Site: http://www.danilopianini.org/ Phone: +39 320 41 36 573 Skype: dany.sk
