On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 08:29 +1100, William Chivers wrote: > Thank you Akemi, I had no idea that I could do this. > For my video drivers I need kernel 3.4 or later. It seems from these sites > that 3.0 and 3.8 is available - has anyone on the list had experience with > this? How stable is SL 6.3 with kernel 3.8? > > Thanks again, Bill > > >>> Akemi Yagi <[email protected]> 04/03/13 8:13 AM >>> > On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 12:51 PM, William Chivers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Alas my new notebook uses the dreaded NVIDIA Optimus technology. I have set > > the BIOS to "Integrated" video but still SL with its ancient Linux kernel > > spins the fan noisily and constantly. I am forced to look for a Linux > > distro with a newer kernel - I am using Xubuntu at the moment which does > > not make the fan noisy but is unstable compared with SL - one or two crash > > reports per week etc. I might try Fedora with MATE next week. > > > > I hope to use SL again in the future but for now, how do I unsubscribe from > > this list? > > > > Thanks, Bill > > If you wish to run SL with a newer kernel, look into ELRepo's > kernel-ml (mainline kernel) [1] or kernel-lt (long-term kernel) [2]. > Both kernels are from kernel.org. > > Akemi > > [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml > [2] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt
I have a laptop that runs EL6 with NVIDIA Optimus technology. I have installed the following package from ElRepo and I use optirun to run any 3D applications. bumblebee-3.1-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 kmod-bbswitch-0.5-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 You can check out the following links to get your laptop up and running under EL6 with NVIDIA Optimus technology. You can also google "nvidia optimus linux" https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=39948 -- Kind Regards Earl Ramirez GPG Key: http://trinipino.com/PublicKey.asc
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