Hi Eric, I was wondering if there have been any recent developments on having VDPAU working on hybrid systems together with bumblebee/ironhide solutions for application-specific acceleration.
Cheers On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Eric Appleman <erapple...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/02/2011 12:32 AM, Mark Constable wrote: >> >> On 2011-11-01 11:24 PM, Eric Appleman wrote: >>>> >>>> Is there a place where I could find the step-by-step instructions >>> >>> (voila)... >> >> Thanks Eric, even though I'm not on Ubuntu that is clear enough to >> almost give me enough confidence to try it out. >> >> Just wondering, why aren't instructions like yours somewhere on a >> website right next to where folks first find out about using this >> software? >> >> I want my entire desktop to use my nvidia gfx so is it possible to >> incorporate this with startx, or similar? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux >> Post to : hybrid-graphics-linux@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > It's not on a website because it uses highly experimental code and > techniques that could put your machine in a less than ideal configuration. > If you're using an Optimus laptop as both your production and testing > machine like I am, you need to be able to handle those situations. Besides, > I prefer sharing new ideas through screencasts since they better convey the > concepts I'm trying to demonstrate. > > If you want a desktop on the Nvidia card, the best way to do it is starting > a DE (Gnome-Shell, Unity, etc) on :8 and have windump completely overlap the > Intel desktop. All programs launched from the Nvidia desktop will run on the > GPU. > > However, I don't know how to make all this happen as part of the boot > process. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux > Post to : hybrid-graphics-linux@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux Post to : hybrid-graphics-linux@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
