Status of Optimus laptop graphics in F22?

[Robin Laing]

On 2015-05-28 08:16, Pete Travis wrote:
> 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
>
>
>

I will have to give it a try on F21 laptop that has Optimus.


Robin