Bumblebee on Fedora?

[Alexander Volovics]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 04:03:45PM +0000, Dave Cross wrote:

>    Bumblebee is a project to enable NVidia's Optimus technology on Linux.
>    I have found a number of web pages explaining how to use Bumblebee on
>    Fedora, but they all seem to involve downloading and compiling the
>    project's source code. Whilst I'm happy to do that if it's necessary, I
>    wondered if anyone knew of plans to make pre-built RPMs available in the
>    Fedora repositories.

Have a look at this website:
http://techies.ncsu.edu/wiki/bumblebee

There you will find rpms for Fed16, Fed17 and Fed18.
This is work by Gary Gatling. I have not tried the rpms myself yet
because I only use bbswitch and compile it myself.

(I have no need for Nvidia discrete graphics and furthermore the
 support of the nouveau driver for the 'Kepler' family of Nvidia  
 GPUs is abominable, certainly with regard to power management,
 which is actually nonexistent).

There are some problems with getting the rpms officially included
in the Fedora repositories because for example bbswitch is an
out-of-tree kernel module.

A VirtualGL rpm is already available in Fed18.

Alexander