On 10/5/11 3:57 PM, Eric Appleman wrote: > The Nvidia GPU can be activated (if not always on because of ACPI > shortcomings), but there's no way to display what it renders. > > The X server we assign to the Nvidia card has no means to display what > it renders onto the Intel X server. We can't see the Nvidia desktop > because it is invisible and has no physical output. Even if the Nvidia > GPU is a secondary device on the same X server as the Intel GPU, it > would still have to go through the Intel GPU to appear on the laptop > screen or its outputs. As Bumblebee exists right now, VirtualGL is the > means by which applications rendered on the invisible Nvidia desktop are > brought onto the Intel desktop. > > Yes, it's convoluted and less than ideal, but it works.
If there's no way to display what it renders, then how do normal users of the laptop use the GPU? nVidia's whitepaper implied that the output of the GPU was composited onto the Intel display. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ VirtualGL-Users mailing list VirtualGL-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtualgl-users
