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Revision as of 15:50, 21 January 2012
Description
Bumblebee is a tool for managing discrete graphics cards on laptops. There has been several attempts in the past but the latest project is working on a more complete solution. It comes in a few parts this page currently only deals with the bbswitch tool which allows the discrete card to be disabled and save battery life.
Requirements
- help2man
- libX11-devel
- glibc-devel
- libbsd-devel
- more?
Install Bumblebee
Download the latest source from github.
git clone https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee.git cd Bumblebee
Create the install files.
autoreconf -fi ./configure --prefix=/usr make
Install it:
sudo make install
You will also need to create relevant users and groups:
sudo groupadd bumblebee sudo usermod -a -G bumblebee $USER
You can get help by running --help on either binaries.
Install bbswitch
Download the latest source from github.
git clone https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch.git cd bbswitch
Create the install files and load in to the kernel.
make sudo make load
This obviously needs to be loaded in to the kernel every time. There is a dkms make file in the devlop branch.
Usage
Now to run bumblebee:
sudo bumblebeed --daemon optirun -- <application>