On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for looking into this. > It is a great idea to use nouveau with DRI_PRIME. The problem with this is, > that it does not really work, because power management is not (yet) > implemented. So this does not save any power, which was the whole idea of > the Optimus technology. > > But I do not understand, why you think that this bug is not release > critical: It makes the package bumblebee completely unusable with nouveau, > although this worked in the past. > > In my opinion one of the following actions should be take: > a) Fix bumblebee/primus/mesa/... so that primus works with nouveau.
Upstream has no plans to do so, and I myself don't have the prerequisite knowledge to fix this. Changing the severity of this bug report won't change the above. > b) Include the virtualgl package again in Debian, since > bumblebee/virtualgl/nouveau seem to work together. On my todo list. > c) Remove the nouveau support from the bumblebee package, because it just > does not work. > > I would prefer option a), but b) is probably easier, since that was how it > worked in the past. If (in the long run) DRI_PRIME is improved, so that it > supports power management, option c) could be considered as well. In the long run, c) (i.e. removal of bbswitch/bumblebee/primus) is what will happen anyways; bumblebee is a hack-ish solution in place until the kernel + userspace has proper Optimus support. Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
