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Re: Bumblebee

 

Thanks Nicolas!

Did not end up with a broken version so far, but as from now I'm prepared in
case I do :)

Jonas

On 1 June 2011 12:41, Nicolas Joyard <joyard.nicolas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jonas,
>
> The upgrade technique I use is the following:
>
> Uninstall bumblebee
> $ sudo bumblebee-uninstall
>
> Go to your git repository directory
> $ cd /path/to/bumblebee
>
> Update the repository
> $ git pull
>
> Reinstall bumblebee
> $ sudo ./install.sh
>
> However, you sometimes end up with a broken version. To be able to revert
> to the previous revision :
>
> Before running "git pull", note down the last commit ID:
> $ git log | head -n 1
> commit  dd9d01d4b036995f094f79436ef5962062e99e57
>
> If you have a problem after reinstalling, uninstall, checkout the last
> working version and reinstall bumblebee :
> $ sudo bumblebee-uninstall
> $ git checkout dd9d01d4b036995f094f79436ef5962062e99e57
> $ sudo ./install.sh
>
> If you checked out a previous working version and want to go back to the
> latest :
> $ sudo bumblebee-uninstall
> $ git checkout master
> $ git pull
> $ sudo ./install.sh
>
> HTH
>
> Nicolas
>
>
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 18:22, Jonas Koekenbier <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just dropping a quick line with a huge THANK YOU MARTIN!!
>>
>> On my Asus Linux Natty-1215N 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64, bumblebee runs like
>> a charm.
>> optirun64 glxgears gives more than triple the performance than glxgears
>> and according to indicator applet battery life went up from 3 to 4 hours :-D
>>
>> M$ is out of my Window$ period.
>>
>> Thanks again dude, you rock.
>>
>> 1 question; when a new version is released, how do I upgrade?  (I'm an
>> absolute beginner at git:) thnx!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jonas
>>
>> On 11 May 2011 23:49, Martin Juhl <mj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm currently working on Fedora support..
>>>
>>> Will probably move on to arch after that..
>>>
>>
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