NVIDIA Releases Optimus Linux Driver With New Features 123
An anonymous reader writes "Nearly one year after Linux creator Linux Torvalds publicly bashed NVIDIA and several years after their multi-GPU mobile technology premiered, the graphics vendor has finally delivered an Optimus-supported Linux driver. NVIDIA released the 319.12 Beta Linux driver that brings support for 'RandR 1.4 GPU provider objects' that basically allows for Optimus-like functionality when using the latest X Server, Linux kernel, and XRandR. The 319.12 beta also has many other features including better UEFI support, installer improvements, new pages on their settings panel, and new GPU support."
Re:Holy crap. (Score:2, Informative)
To answer my own question-- looks like this was an issue with xorg [github.com] not the kernel.
The solution:
lspci | grep NVIDIA
then add the right value to /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia, such as
BusID "PCI:01:00.0"
Lenovo Notebook? Don't Celebrate Just Yet... (Score:4, Informative)
I'll be glad when this is actually able to run on Lenovo's notebooks, which require an ugly ACPI hack to enable the Nvidia GPU: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch/issues/2#issuecomment-3797568 [github.com]
Who? (Score:5, Informative)
Somebody get Soulxkill his coffee.