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OUTDATED!!!!! - Replaced by "The Bumblebee Project" and "Ironhide"
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Bumblebee on Oneiric Alpha 3, Is it advisable? #566

Closed DJSubterrain closed 13 years ago

DJSubterrain commented 13 years ago

Hi, I just downloaded/installed the new Alpha 3 of Oneiric. I tried installing Bumblebee which (surprisingly) already has an Oneiric ppa but when I restarted the laptop the login screen took an age to appear and when it did, it hanged in the middle of typing my password.

So I rebooted into the recovery version and removed Bumblebee through the console, rebooted and, this time, was able to login perfectly fine.

I also noticed that the Intel already had acceleration (compiz works fine) without BumbleBee installed.

So...finally...my question is, is it worth trying out BumbleBee at the moment or should I just wait for the beta versions?

I was also notified of "Additional Drivers", namely Nvidia and 3D Nvidia drivers. Obviously these won't work without BumbleBee so is it best just to leave them?

Lekensteyn commented 13 years ago

The intel drivers provide enough power for compositing. If you want to get the maximum graphical power, you need your second card, the nvidia one. Bumblebee enables you to use that card for applications, but is currently not ready for use (the power scripts needs to be removed). Expect the next release to fix these issues.

You do not need to install the additional nvidia drivers if you are not going to use them (for Bumblebee for example)

Borgoz commented 13 years ago

I got it working on a Dell xps15 in this way:

  1. install Oneiric, install bumblebee and blacklist nouveau module in order to avoid blank screen (or slow as you said) on first reboot.
  2. comment the $ENABLECARD in the file /usr/bin/bumblebee-disablecard-on-powerup in order to workaround an acpi issue bumblebee has right now.

Right now there's a bug in oneiric that pushes up to 30% power comsumption of sandy bridges. adding the line i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 to boot parameters solved this for me. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/818830

DJSubterrain commented 13 years ago

Thanks guys :)

ArchangeGabriel commented 13 years ago

Please try the new version here : https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee. Note that you have to make a workaroung for VirtualGL if you're using 64bit.