Status of Optimus laptop graphics in F22?

Pete Travis lists at petetravis.com
Thu May 28 14:16:44 UTC 2015


On May 28, 2015 7:36 AM, "Matthew Saltzman" <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 16:40 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thanks.
>
> While searching, I ran across this:
> http://negativo17.org/nvidia-driver/.  Wondering if anyone has
> experience with these packages?  He claims to have Optimus support
> working without Bumblebee.
>
>
> >
>
> --
> Matthew Saltzman
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> mjs AT clemson DOT edu
> --
>

I use these packages with a desktop card, the DKMS driver works very well.

--Pete
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