Bumblebee

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.

Requirements

• help2man
• libX11-devel
• glibc-devel
• libbsd-devel
• more?

Install

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
sudo make install

You will also need to create relevant users and groups:

sudo groupadd bumblebee
sudo usermod -a -G bumblebee $USER

Now to run bumblebee:

sudo bumblebeed --daemon
optirun -- <application>

You can get help by running

--help

on either binaries.