It's a fair response - except that it completely avoids the issue that 90% of laptops shipped with NVidia chips ( estimated statistic, don't quote me ) are using an Optimus configuration, rendering the "fantastic" NVidia driver completely moot.
I realize that X is in no state to support switchable graphics, but at least a solution to provide using either one chip or the other would be MORE than sufficient. :) Cheers, David On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:54 AM, jason peel <jason.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > in fairness that is a sound response - after all its a business > > BTW did I say thanks for the hardware Bumblebee Devs put in! > > I know precisious little about how things work but would love to get > involved somehow. I use Bumblebee for running Graphics apps such as > Blender and because later this year I start learning C++ & openGL. I have > started the C++ bit already so I know very basic stuff. Is there anyway in > which I can get involved? > > > Jason > > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Eric Appleman <erapple...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Supporting Linux is important to NVIDIA, and we understand that there >> are people who are as passionate about Linux as an open source platform >> as we are passionate about delivering an awesome GPU experience. >> >> Recently, there have been some questions raised about our lack of >> support for our Optimus notebook technology. When we launched our >> Optimus notebook technology, it was with support for Windows 7 only. The >> open source community rallied to work around this with support from the >> Bumblebee Open Source Project http://bumblebee-project.org/. And as a >> result, we've recently made Installer and readme changes in our R295 >> drivers that were designed to make interaction with Bumblebee easier. >> >> While we understand that some people would prefer us to provide detailed >> documentation on all of our GPU internals, or be more active in Linux >> kernel community development discussions, we have made a decision to >> support Linux on our GPUs by leveraging NVIDIA common code, rather than >> the Linux common infrastructure. While this may not please everyone, it >> does allow us to provide the most consistent GPU experience to our >> customers, regardless of platform or operating system. >> >> As a result: >> >> 1) Linux end users benefit from same-day support for new GPUs , OpenGL >> version and extension parity between NVIDIA Windows and NVIDIA Linux >> support, and OpenGL performance parity between NVIDIA Windows and NVIDIA >> Linux. >> >> 2) We support a wide variety of GPUs on Linux, including our latest >> GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla-class GPUs, for both desktop and notebook >> platforms. Our drivers for these platforms are updated regularly, with >> seven updates released so far this year for Linux alone. The latest >> Linux drivers can be downloaded from www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html. >> >> 3) We are a very active participant in the ARM Linux kernel. For the >> latest 3.4 ARM kernel – the next-gen kernel to be used on future Linux, >> Android, and Chrome distributions – NVIDIA ranks second in terms of >> total lines changed and fourth in terms of number of changesets for all >> employers or organizations. >> >> At the end of the day, providing a consistent GPU experience across >> multiple platforms for all of our customers continues to be one of our >> key goals. >> >> Source: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=184564 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux >> Post to : hybrid-graphics-linux@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux > Post to : hybrid-graphics-linux@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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