Bumblebee 3.0 for Ubuntu 12.04 and 11.10
The bumblebee project has successfully released an 'optimus replacement'
for the linux platform. The latest bumblebee version was released on
January 19,2012, Bumblebee 3.0 . It is very stable and enhances the
performance of Ubuntu 11.10 thus allowing Unity 3d to be used.
it provides, automatic power management which also survives suspend and a greater battery time.
But as Bumblebee requires low level hardware access, you can't test this on a Virtual Machine
Installing Bumblebee
first, if you haven't already installed the restricted drivers for the Nvidia GPU, do,
Then open the terminal and add ppa Bumbleebe ”Tumbleweed”, then install
run
and run
Then observe the difference. Now you can enjoy Unity 3d, in fact Ubuntu boots right into it when it was restarted.
it provides, automatic power management which also survives suspend and a greater battery time.
But as Bumblebee requires low level hardware access, you can't test this on a Virtual Machine
Installing Bumblebee
first, if you haven't already installed the restricted drivers for the Nvidia GPU, do,
sudo apt-get purge nvidia-current // this will update the GPU driversThen open the terminal and add ppa Bumbleebe ”Tumbleweed”, then install
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bumblebee
To allow you to use Bumblebee (replace $user with your username)sudo usermod -a -G bumblebee $user
Now it's all done, restart the computer and then you can test it,
run
glxspheres
and run
optirun glxspheres
Then observe the difference. Now you can enjoy Unity 3d, in fact Ubuntu boots right into it when it was restarted.
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