andrebrait / prime-indicator

PRIME Indicator Plus - enhanced indicator applet for NVIDIA Optimus laptops
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What about Ubuntu 18.04? #33

Open ViBE-HU opened 6 years ago

ViBE-HU commented 6 years ago

Maybe it's a lame question. I guess there are already a solution for this on system level (nvidia-prime) but on my freshly installed 18.04 beta it's absolutely dead. Do you have any plans on the new OS?

andrebrait commented 6 years ago

I promise I'll take a look into those things as soon as I graduate (probably July 2018). ;)

mmhobi7 commented 6 years ago

instead of a log out it needs to be rebooted, and the nvidia power stuff doesn't work anymore

andrebrait commented 6 years ago

@Aaahh Yes, I just tested some time ago. As a matter of fact, it's funky even on 16.04.3 and newer.

Motherboard commented 6 years ago

@Aaahh It also happens in 17.10, I suspect it's because of GDM - I've installed Cinnamon and LightDM instead of Gnome and GDM on my 17.10, and now it works like a charm - I guess it's the same thing with regards to 18.04.

mmhobi7 commented 6 years ago

@Motherboard I have Lightdm and it's still funky

jasmines commented 6 years ago

I'm trying to contact the developer since ubuntu 17.10 asking for an upgrade. Never answered. The ppa is active but prime-indicator-plus package must have been abandoned...

Not a great behaviour, but that's it...

andrebrait commented 6 years ago

@jasmines I haven't released a new version of this software, which is why the guy responsible for the PPA hasn't updated it, AFAIK.

If by "the developer" you mean me, though, I'm sorry that I didn't respond, but I wasn't notified of anyone trying to contact me as well :/

jasmines commented 6 years ago

So what should one do to have a build for bionic in the PPA? Can't you put us in contact with the mantainer? He should be the guy behind webupd8 and he's ignoring our messages as well. 

andrebrait commented 6 years ago

@jasmines I had a discussion that included him earlier this year and he didn't respond either.

I don't know what happened to him. I hope he's okay. I'll see if he can respond the email.

Bear in mind that the indicator isn't exactly in the best shape for bionic, as others have pointed out... :/

mmhobi7 commented 6 years ago

Git clone and run the install script

andrebrait commented 6 years ago

@Aaahh yeah, that works too.

And installing the dependencies like in the README for this repo too.

ViBE-HU commented 6 years ago

@jasmines sadly Andrei (the maintainer of that PPA and the creator of WebUpd8) is pretty inactive for a while so it's not gonna be easy.

jasmines commented 6 years ago

A while means more than a year for the PPA. Webupd8 is getting updated regularly, instead, as it gives him money...Il 24 mag 2018 7:26 AM, ViBE notifications@github.com ha scritto:@jasmines sadly Andrei (the maintainer of that PPA and the creator of WebUpd8) is pretty inactive for a while so it's not gonna be easy.

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Motherboard commented 6 years ago

This might be of interest - a replacement for the prime-select in Ubuntu 18.04 which works without reboot.

andrebrait commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the tip! I'll look into it.

On top of it all, it's written in Rust :) I like Rust

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This https://github.com/matthieugras/Prime-Ubuntu-18.04 might be of interest - a replacement for the prime-select in Ubuntu 18.04 which works without reboot.

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Motherboard commented 6 years ago

That nvidia-prime alternative I posted seems to be not maintained at the moment, it had been forked and further improved here, there's an active discussion about it in the nvidia dev forum.

jasmines commented 6 years ago

And the PPA is still missing updates... Launchpad should be use to close them when the mantainer even refuse to answer...