On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Cedric BAIL <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:36 AM, mik firestone <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have just received a new laptop and I am running into problems with > e17, > > e18 and e19. > > > > The laptop has the GeForce GTX 860M, which means I have to deal with > > Optimus. > > > > If I try to work w/ bumblebee, I get a warning when I start e saying my > > card doesn't support OpenGL. This makes sense, I think, because you have > to > > run each application via optimus to use the Nvidia chip. The wm itself is > > running on the intel chip. > > > > If I do the more recent xrandr configurations, I get a mostly blank > screen. > > Mostly. Because I can see the pointer, and if I click it changes color. > But > > nothing else is shown on the screen. > > > > I can try to provide more information if required, but I am mostly > curious > > to know if anybody else has gotten e18 or e19 to work using the second > > method. It is a big laptop with a lot of disk and the battery life will > be > > close to 0 regardless of what tricks I pull with the graphics. Failing > > that, does anybody know the proper invocations/methods/whatever to start > > e18 or e19 such that the nvidia chip is always being used via bumblebee? > > I have not setup this configuration yet on my laptop, but I have seen > a presentation from Nouveau's developer on how to do it. My > understanding so far is that you want to use your Intel chipset for > Enlightenment and NVidia chipset for the demanding application. I > don't know which setup you are following, nor which distribution, but > Arch Linux as a pretty good article describing the setup process : > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bumblebee . I think by default > the configuration should push everything to Intel GPU, so I am > wondering what is going with your setup and why it is not working that > way. Maybe you will have to modify the enlightenment.desktop. > -- > Cedric BAIL > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > And as soon as I send the question, I figure out the answer. I rebuilt efl with the drm use flag and that seems to have resolved the issues. Mik -- In a world of ninja v. pirate, I pilot a Gundam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
