From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:53:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3066572.K6IAvtWe5y@andromeda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO5-k+rDi66X0JXYrLO-+W6va4Pe1j=DbDMAuZSRgWHKzXhu9A@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 01:09:16 PM behrouz khosravi wrote:
> > You need bumblebee. Otherwise it's not possible to use the Nvidia
> > Optimus chip.
>
> I think that it is possible, or supposed to be possible!
> The gentoo wiki says that Nvidia drivers are now supporting the optimus, so
> it is called "native optimus support"
>
> > > I just waned to use optimus without that, but it seem the it is not
> > > easy!
> >
> > It's not possible, because the Nvidia Optimus chip isn't a full featured
> > graphics card, and doesn't write directly to the screen. Joost already
> > explained it pretty well.
> >
> > Exactly, that is why the Nvidia driver is using the xrandr for offloading
>
> the tasks.
That convoluted method (xrandr......) is what bumblebee does in the
background. Along with enabling/disabling the nvidia chip.
--
Joost
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-17 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-16 10:42 [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus behrouz khosravi
2014-12-16 11:08 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-12-16 11:55 ` behrouz khosravi
2014-12-16 12:54 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-12-16 18:11 ` behrouz khosravi
2014-12-16 19:49 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-12-16 20:59 ` behrouz khosravi
2014-12-16 21:29 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-12-17 9:23 ` behrouz khosravi
2014-12-17 9:50 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-12-17 15:19 ` behrouz khosravi
2014-12-18 4:53 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2014-12-16 21:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Heiko Baums
2014-12-16 22:37 ` Sid S
2014-12-16 23:46 ` Erik Mackdanz
2014-12-17 1:40 ` Sid S
2014-12-17 6:35 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-12-17 10:45 ` Heiko Baums
2014-12-17 13:16 ` Erik Mackdanz
2014-12-17 13:59 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-12-17 9:39 ` behrouz khosravi
2014-12-17 9:53 ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2014-12-17 10:49 ` Heiko Baums
2014-12-17 11:50 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-12-17 14:27 ` Christian Kruse
2014-12-18 5:28 ` behrouz khosravi
2014-12-18 18:40 ` Fábio Emilio Costa
2014-12-18 19:03 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-12-18 19:34 ` Heiko Baums
2014-12-19 6:48 ` Sid S
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=3066572.K6IAvtWe5y@andromeda \
--to=joost@antarean.org \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox