From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D50D01389E2 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 06:35:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7728CE0956; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 06:35:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.165]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A57BE0950 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 06:35:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.137] (helo=smtp6.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Y18CX-00065f-Gu for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 07:35:13 +0100 Received: from 53579160.cm-6-8c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.87.145.96] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp6.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Y18CW-00042A-Hy for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 07:35:13 +0100 Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [10.20.13.200]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8464E4B for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 07:35:09 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 07:35:09 +0100 Message-ID: <6065427.s3vDGgfdQI@andromeda> Organization: Antarean User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.16.5-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <87vblb40q1.fsf@msi.mackdanz.net> References: <5490A6A2.5070902@baums-on-web.de> <87vblb40q1.fsf@msi.mackdanz.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Ziggo-spambar: ---- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -4.9 X-Ziggo-spamreport: ALL_TRUSTED=-1,BAYES_00=-1.9,PROLO_TRUST_RDNS=-3,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: fbee8907-79bf-4f53-bfe9-69bae9fcf3cf X-Archives-Hash: a0d5dd1c4b8ad27122d3448801a30d9f On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 05:46:30 PM Erik Mackdanz wrote: > Heiko Baums writes: > > I don't know if, but I don't think that, it will work with > > x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau. > > I used bumblebee for quite a while. It worked okay, but every upgrade I > would have to fiddle with it again. > > I switched to the Nouveau driver and I'm very glad I did. "Conventional > wisdom" says Nouveau quality is lower than Nvidia, but I found it worked > better on some things (Second Life). > > As someone else pointed out, with Nouveau the GPU remains on all the > time consuming power. This is the downside. > > If ease-of-use and/or open licensing are more important to you than top > rendering quality and power consumption, consider using Nouveau. I've been using bumblebee for over a year now. (First laptop with Optimus) and not had any issues. It always works as advertised. What issues did you experience? -- Joost