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NVIDIA Releases Optimus Linux Driver With New Features

Posted by Soulskill on from the baby-steps dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nearly one year after Linux creator Linux Torvalds publicly bashed NVIDIA and several years after their multi-GPU mobile technology premiered, the graphics vendor has finally delivered an Optimus-supported Linux driver. NVIDIA released the 319.12 Beta Linux driver that brings support for 'RandR 1.4 GPU provider objects' that basically allows for Optimus-like functionality when using the latest X Server, Linux kernel, and XRandR. The 319.12 beta also has many other features including better UEFI support, installer improvements, new pages on their settings panel, and new GPU support."

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  1. Re:Holy crap. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    To answer my own question-- looks like this was an issue with xorg not the kernel.

    The solution:

    lspci | grep NVIDIA

    then add the right value to /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia, such as

    BusID "PCI:01:00.0"

  2. Lenovo Notebook? Don't Celebrate Just Yet... by Freshly+Exhumed · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'll be glad when this is actually able to run on Lenovo's notebooks, which require an ugly ACPI hack to enable the Nvidia GPU: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch/issues/2#issuecomment-3797568

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    I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
  3. Who? by minus9 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Who's this Linux Torvalds guy?

    Somebody get Soulxkill his coffee.