R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> writes: > On Jun 9, 2016 4:25 PM, "lee" <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: >> >> R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Use Bumblebee. It is the FOSS version of Optimus. >> >> That seems to be for laptops having peculiar hardware. >> > > Nope. Works regardless.
If that works with two NVIDIA cards, the PCI bus might not be fast enough. Even if it's fast enough, I have no idea how it would perform, considering that it's possible (even likely) that not both PCI slots for the graphics cards are connected to the same CPU --- however they do that on boards that have two, it might not be an issue at all or perform much worse than using a single card. Do you have such a setup in use? And the docs say: "WARNING:You must install the Nvidia binaries in a way that will not break Mesa’s LibGL, it is needed for 3D acceleration on the Intel card. This means that on most distros you will need a Bumblebee specific package for it to run, the stock packages on most cases will break LibGL."[1] I do not have an Intel card. And what are these Optimus cards they mention? Besides, IIUC this is intended for /switching between/ different cards. I do not want to switch between cards but /use both of them at the same time/. There's no point in switching between them, and apparently that would be more a disadvantage than anything else due to the overhead involved. [1]: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Supported-drivers
