[Bug 770685] Re: there is no optimus support in linux
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 885204 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885204 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 660443 Recommended drivers don't work with Nvidia Optimus ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 885204 Recommending proprietary driver on hybrid systems can break 3D -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/770685 Title: there is no optimus support in linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/770685/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 770685] Re: there is no optimus support in linux
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 660443 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/660443 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 660443 Recommended drivers don't work with Nvidia Optimus -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/770685 Title: there is no optimus support in linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/770685/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 770685] Re: there is no optimus support in linux
This probably wont show anything useful for Rocko, but might work for Joel: Can you please navigate to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables and run: grep MXMS * (note the space before the *) Please let us know whether there is any output or not, and if there is please post the output here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/770685 Title: there is no optimus support in linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/770685/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 770685] Re: there is no optimus support in linux
On Thinkpad W520 with 11.10 beta I can set the bios three ways, each with problems * intel only - boots and runs fine, but cannot use display port or vga, which means no external monitors at all :( Doesn't even detect that they are there * nvidia only - used to boot but stopped with some update, even when it did boot it would detect external monitors but couldn't set them up without crashing. * Optimus mode - totally never booted :( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/770685 Title: there is no optimus support in linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/770685/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 770685] Re: there is no optimus support in linux
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/770685 Title: there is no optimus support in linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/770685/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 770685] Re: there is no optimus support in linux
@madbiologist: that only works if you can switch between intel and nvidia cards completely in the BIOS, not for laptops like mine where the intel card must always be active because there is no connection between the nvidia card and the laptop screen. FYI, bumblebee has now branched into two projects that both support offloading 3D to the nvidia card: https://github.com/MrMEEE/ironhide and https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/770685 Title: there is no optimus support in linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/770685/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 770685] Re: there is no optimus support in linux
An alternative approach for some Optimus laptops was added to the Linux 3.0 kernel which will be used by the upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot - see http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=OTQzMA for further details (this article refers to the 2.6.40 kernel but it was decided to rename this kernel to 3.0). Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot alpha 3 was released on August 4th 2011 if you want to test it before it's final release on October 13th 2011 - see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricReleaseSchedule -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/770685 Title: there is no optimus support in linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/770685/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 770685] Re: there is no optimus support in linux
His solution is now much better, running a separate X server to provide the acceleration when specified but still preserving the intel chip acceleration when not using nvidia: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee It still doesn't fix the problem where say HDMI is attached to the nvidia chip and the laptop screen to the intel chip. In this case, you can only get the HDMI working using the nouveau driver (and this means 2d only in Ubuntu 11.04), which of course conflicts with the nvidia driver. I imagine you could get the HDMI screen working in Xinerama if it were possible to tell the X server to set up Screen0 and Screen1 and then use the normal drivers for Screen0 and the nvidia drivers for Screen1, in the same way that the secondary X server in Martin Juhl's bumblebee uses the nvidia drivers but allows the intel drivers to use the normal libGL for the main server. However, I can't see a way of specifying this in xorg.conf. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/770685 Title: there is no optimus support in linux -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 770685] Re: there is no optimus support in linux
** Description changed: Over a year after its release, there is still no Optimus support in Linux, either in nvidia-current or in the nouveau driver. Unless there is a BIOS setting that allows you to turn off the Intel iGPU, the only workaround is to use the Intel iGPU and, if possible, save power by turning off the nvidia card via an ACPI call. It appears that in most cases, to cut costs, the manufacturers don't supply the hardware MUX that allows you to select nvidia graphics, so there is no such BIOS option. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1657660 has a summary of the issue. Apart from being a great annoyance to people who buy a laptop with an nvidia card and discovering it just doesn't work in Linux, this is a big problem because other basic functions like running an external monitor via HDMI will most likely not work (eg see https://lists.launchpad.net /hybrid-graphics-linux/msg00701.html - HDMI is attached via the non- working nvidia card). I don't mind so much about only being able to use the Intel graphics (even despite the driver being less stable than nvidia-current), but not being able to connect an external monitor is a show-stopper for me. Last year it was possible to get a laptop with an i7-series CPU and a working nvidia card, because it the i7 CPU last year didn't have an iGPU. But Sandy Bridge CPUs all come with internal graphics and are now the norm (and if you are buying a performance laptop, why wouldn't you want a SB CPU?), so it is almost impossible now to buy a performance laptop with a working nvidia card (ie working HDMI). Will this slow the future uptake of Ubuntu? I would suspect that it must do at least for users who have performance laptops, since Ubuntu now can't drive external monitors on a reasonably large portion of new laptops. Will people stop using Ubuntu on performance laptops because of this? By the same logic, there must be current Ubuntu users who will be forced to use Windoze just so they can get external monitors working. (Sadly, it looks like I might fall into this category when my company upgrades its laptops soon.) nvidia has stated that they have no plans to support optimus on Linux, but that one day they might have to. Is there a way to give them an incentive to do so, other than by moaning on the nvidia forums (eg http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=144750). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: nvidia-current 270.41.06-0ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 2.6.39-rc4-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia .proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0' .proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: .proc.driver.nvidia.version: - NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 270.41.06 Mon Apr 18 14:53:56 PDT 2011 - GCC version: gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4) + NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 270.41.06 Mon Apr 18 14:53:56 PDT 2011 + GCC version: gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4) Architecture: amd64 CheckboxSubmission: 1bd8e90541d49b96c13cbfcc9baf103b CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,imgjpeg,compiztoolbox,maximumize,decor,grid,place,imgpng,session,mousepoll,resize,vpswitch,move,wall,snap,gnomecompat,regex,text,thumbnail,imgsvg,extrawm,animation,workarounds,expo,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell] CompositorRunning: compiz Date: Tue Apr 26 12:51:11 2011 DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-03-20 09:19:31.967259 DistroCodename: natty DistroVariant: ubuntu DkmsStatus: - nvidia-current, 270.41.06, 2.6.39-rc4-generic, x86_64: installed - nvidia-current, 270.41.06, 2.6.38.3-generic, x86_64: installed - nvidia-current, 270.41.06, 2.6.38.4-generic, x86_64: installed - vboxhost, 4.0.6, 2.6.39-rc4-generic, x86_64: installed + nvidia-current, 270.41.06, 2.6.39-rc4-generic, x86_64: installed + nvidia-current, 270.41.06, 2.6.38.3-generic, x86_64: installed + nvidia-current, 270.41.06, 2.6.38.4-generic, x86_64: installed + vboxhost, 4.0.6, 2.6.39-rc4-generic, x86_64: installed GraphicsCard: - nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600M GT] [10de:0407] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) -Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:022e] + nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600M GT] [10de:0407] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) + Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:022e] InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx - Alpha amd64 (20100224.1) JockeyStatus: - xorg:nvidia_173 - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use) - xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, Not in use) + xorg:nvidia_173 - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use) + xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, Not in use) MachineType: Dell Inc.
[Bug 770685] Re: there is no optimus support in linux
It looks like this guy has worked out a partial solution using VirtualGL: http://www.martin-juhl.dk/2011/05/optimus-on-linux-problem-solved/ It's not perfect because you don't get desktop acceleration either with the intel or the nvidia cards, but he says you can run applications with 3d support using the nvidia card and sending the output via the intel to the laptop display. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/770685 Title: there is no optimus support in linux -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 770685] Re: there is no optimus support in linux
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