Re: [e-users] Fwd: nvidia Optimus and xrandr
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Cedric BAIL cedric.b...@free.fr wrote: Hello, On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:36 AM, mik firestone mikf...@gmail.com wrote: I have just received a new laptop and I am running into problems with e17, e18 and e19. The laptop has the GeForce GTX 860M, which means I have to deal with Optimus. If I try to work w/ bumblebee, I get a warning when I start e saying my card doesn't support OpenGL. This makes sense, I think, because you have to run each application via optimus to use the Nvidia chip. The wm itself is running on the intel chip. If I do the more recent xrandr configurations, I get a mostly blank screen. Mostly. Because I can see the pointer, and if I click it changes color. But nothing else is shown on the screen. I can try to provide more information if required, but I am mostly curious to know if anybody else has gotten e18 or e19 to work using the second method. It is a big laptop with a lot of disk and the battery life will be close to 0 regardless of what tricks I pull with the graphics. Failing that, does anybody know the proper invocations/methods/whatever to start e18 or e19 such that the nvidia chip is always being used via bumblebee? I have not setup this configuration yet on my laptop, but I have seen a presentation from Nouveau's developer on how to do it. My understanding so far is that you want to use your Intel chipset for Enlightenment and NVidia chipset for the demanding application. I don't know which setup you are following, nor which distribution, but Arch Linux as a pretty good article describing the setup process : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bumblebee . I think by default the configuration should push everything to Intel GPU, so I am wondering what is going with your setup and why it is not working that way. Maybe you will have to modify the enlightenment.desktop. -- Cedric BAIL -- ___ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users And as soon as I send the question, I figure out the answer. I rebuilt efl with the drm use flag and that seems to have resolved the issues. Mik -- In a world of ninja v. pirate, I pilot a Gundam -- ___ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
[e-users] Fwd: nvidia Optimus and xrandr
I have just received a new laptop and I am running into problems with e17, e18 and e19. The laptop has the GeForce GTX 860M, which means I have to deal with Optimus. If I try to work w/ bumblebee, I get a warning when I start e saying my card doesn't support OpenGL. This makes sense, I think, because you have to run each application via optimus to use the Nvidia chip. The wm itself is running on the intel chip. If I do the more recent xrandr configurations, I get a mostly blank screen. Mostly. Because I can see the pointer, and if I click it changes color. But nothing else is shown on the screen. I can try to provide more information if required, but I am mostly curious to know if anybody else has gotten e18 or e19 to work using the second method. It is a big laptop with a lot of disk and the battery life will be close to 0 regardless of what tricks I pull with the graphics. Failing that, does anybody know the proper invocations/methods/whatever to start e18 or e19 such that the nvidia chip is always being used via bumblebee? Thanks, Mik PS - Gmail is giving me fits. My apologies is this email is sent twice. -- In a world of pirate v. ninja, I pilot a gundam -- In a world of ninja v. pirate, I pilot a Gundam -- ___ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
Re: [e-users] Fwd: nvidia Optimus and xrandr
Hello, On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:36 AM, mik firestone mikf...@gmail.com wrote: I have just received a new laptop and I am running into problems with e17, e18 and e19. The laptop has the GeForce GTX 860M, which means I have to deal with Optimus. If I try to work w/ bumblebee, I get a warning when I start e saying my card doesn't support OpenGL. This makes sense, I think, because you have to run each application via optimus to use the Nvidia chip. The wm itself is running on the intel chip. If I do the more recent xrandr configurations, I get a mostly blank screen. Mostly. Because I can see the pointer, and if I click it changes color. But nothing else is shown on the screen. I can try to provide more information if required, but I am mostly curious to know if anybody else has gotten e18 or e19 to work using the second method. It is a big laptop with a lot of disk and the battery life will be close to 0 regardless of what tricks I pull with the graphics. Failing that, does anybody know the proper invocations/methods/whatever to start e18 or e19 such that the nvidia chip is always being used via bumblebee? I have not setup this configuration yet on my laptop, but I have seen a presentation from Nouveau's developer on how to do it. My understanding so far is that you want to use your Intel chipset for Enlightenment and NVidia chipset for the demanding application. I don't know which setup you are following, nor which distribution, but Arch Linux as a pretty good article describing the setup process : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bumblebee . I think by default the configuration should push everything to Intel GPU, so I am wondering what is going with your setup and why it is not working that way. Maybe you will have to modify the enlightenment.desktop. -- Cedric BAIL -- ___ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
