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 2BC241389E2 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:42:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 927E9E0A95; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:42:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04159E099C for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:42:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f182.google.com with SMTP id wo20so1153559obc.13 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:42:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:date:message-id :mime-version:content-type; bh=T4KK4GVgE91LPQHj3TkM/mo42qIq1VWrOLLqJW6aphU=; b=cLnbt1NEL2hkTXfOppsTS2EUkbge2g0m1ZQmyBKTpaLWo6Q+CwFAFxkrf7FntITMZ+ 10tUd2zVhrJWZ+Eim+66inFf9BzO98A1UYaFCqHwIjv6G2Q5nnwZSB2fvh3WsdOYGmRp 9Hn/motiS1EMCxcnX8nK3ZDxQXP+o9zcBhYwG9ongg9FHp1QTocRzS+UCwmcemAQ8Ejn t5NVKES3jcBK2/1lgsVj2Uu/g7CKMXPQ+mPrdkAJ0MvEPuzZBm9Qu8FX2HksGhLWBewp pt7tsnWd/ZxS9W5UXyh2BYrQohop+oJyNGbSCnXpfvv7Si68cNdlLtl3ZGCG/8RY/gVl GrMQ== X-Received: by 10.202.1.200 with SMTP id 191mr22972752oib.31.1418773370277; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:42:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from erikmack@gmail.com ([2602:306:37ec:5bb0::46]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id d85sm1007254oic.26.2014.12.16.15.42.48 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:42:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (nullmailer pid 4792 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:46:30 -0000 From: Erik Mackdanz To: Heiko Baums , gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus In-Reply-To: <5490A6A2.5070902@baums-on-web.de> References: <3263934.HixPIKAuea@andromeda> <5490A6A2.5070902@baums-on-web.de> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.19 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:46:30 -0600 Message-ID: <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-Type: text/plain X-Archives-Salt: 4aa5f151-608c-479f-9fa4-5d122fb37be6 X-Archives-Hash: f360a8db94d551a1242b80bff2ef48ac 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. -- Erik Mackdanz