Status of Optimus laptop graphics in F22?

Sudhir Khanger ml at sudhirkhanger.com
Thu May 28 11:10:59 UTC 2015


On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:09 AM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:
> Does anyone know if nVidia's Optimus technology is supported natively in
> F22?  Or do we still need to go with Bumblebee?  And what's the status
> of Bumblebee for F22?
>
> I booted the Live DVD and it loaded the nouveau driver on my Latitude,
> but I couldn't tell if it was using the Intel chip or not.  (There
> doesn't seem to be an X.log.0 on the live system.) How can I check?
>
> TIA.

Optimus is not supported on "Linux." Bumblebee should work fine on
Fedora 22. By default system uses Intel graphic card but both cards
are in ON state causing battery drain.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee
https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/153

PS:- Repos are up but wiki needs to be updated though.

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