On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 05:46:30 PM Erik Mackdanz wrote: > Heiko Baums <li...@baums-on-web.de> writes: > > I don't know if, but I don't think that, it will work with > > x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau. > > I used bumblebee for quite a while. It worked okay, but every upgrade I > would have to fiddle with it again. > > I switched to the Nouveau driver and I'm very glad I did. "Conventional > wisdom" says Nouveau quality is lower than Nvidia, but I found it worked > better on some things (Second Life). > > As someone else pointed out, with Nouveau the GPU remains on all the > time consuming power. This is the downside. > > If ease-of-use and/or open licensing are more important to you than top > rendering quality and power consumption, consider using Nouveau.
I've been using bumblebee for over a year now. (First laptop with Optimus) and not had any issues. It always works as advertised. What issues did you experience? -- Joost
