Bumblebee Project

Bumblebee aims to provide support for nVidia Optimus laptops for GNU/Linux distributions. Using Bumblebee, you can use your nVidia card for rendering graphics which will be displayed using the Intel card.

Installation

1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable

If you are on Ubuntu prior to 11.10 and want newer drivers (recommended) than the ones available in the official repos, run:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install bumblebee

Usage

To run your application with the discrete nVidia card use the command:

• $ optirun -- <application>

Power Management

The Bumblebee Daemon provides an elegant and stable means of managing Optimus hybrid graphics chipsets. A primary goal of this project is to not only enable use of the discrete GPU for rendering, but also to enable smart power management of the dGPU when it's not in use.

IRC

Please join #bumblebee channel on Freenode if you wish to help testing and creating the installer.

Reporting bugs/problems

First of all: If you have any problem, please read this article: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Reporting-Issues

Then create a bug report package with the bumblebee-bugreport tool and open an issue on GitHub at https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues

Uninstall

If you're unsatisfied with Bumblebee, you can remove it by running:

• $ apt-get --purge remove bumblebee

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