"J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> writes: > 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? > I remember more than once changing bumblebee.conf during an upgrade, when the service failed to start. This is over two years ago now, so I don't remember any more than that.
You could tell me that bumblebee is now stable and rock-solid, but I still wouldn't switch from Nouveau. I've had a good experience, and open source matters to me. On top of that, this laptop has only a year or so left before I replace it, and I know now to avoid Optimus entirely in the future. > -- > Joost > -- Erik Mackdanz
