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[Stephen Brooks <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Héctor,

    I suspect vglrun only works for stand alone apps as opposed to
embedded windows as used by plugin, so perhaps this is not possible?  I
don't have much knowledge of vgl before using bumblebee so I can't help
much at this I'm afraid.

Regards,
Steve

On 01/06/11 15:25, Héctor Franqui wrote:
> @Bilal Akhtar: I tried installing Google Chrome and the running it
> with optirun64. It worked fine, however I can't activate OpenGL mode
> in Runescape anyway. Can you activate OpenGL mode? Because software
> mode isn't that good.
>
> @Stephen Brooks: Your solution seems to be what I was looking for, but
> then again, I don't know if the game can't detect that the Nvidia card
> is running because it defaults to software mode, it doesn't allows me
> to use OpenGL. Anyway, I think I got something wrong with bumblebee. I
> will Investigate further to check this out.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> 2011/5/31 Stephen Brooks <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>
>     Hi,
>
>         I suspect you need to wrap the java_vm binary.  I used a
>     similar trick in the past to run it via aoss.  I'm not on my
>     laptop at the moment so this is all untested, might just work
>     can't think why it wouldn't.
>
>     Find and change to your java_vm directory ("locate java_vm" should
>     help)
>
>     For me is:
>
>     cd /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin
>
>     sudo mv java_vm java_vm_orig
>
>     sudo touch java_vm
>     sudo chmod a+x java_vm
>     sudo vi java_vm
>
>     Insert and save:
>
>     #!/bin/bash
>     exec optirun64 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java_vm_orig
>
>     Probably need to restart your browser to cleanly exit any
>     currently running java_vm.  Let us know if it works :)
>
>     Regards,
>     Steve
>
>
>     On 30/05/11 21:13, Héctor Franqui wrote:
>>     Nope, I was thinking the same, but I can't activate the OpenGL
>>     mode, it remains on Software mode wihich works kind of laggy. Or
>>     perhaps the game doesn't supports OpenGL with VirtualGL. Just
>>     wondering. In Windows I fixed that by adding Java to the list of
>>     programs that runs with Nvidia, nonetheless in Linux I can't do
>>     that since the Firefox plugin seems to call directly the java
>>     executable and doesn't allow any launcher/shortcut that calls
>>     optirun and Java.
>>
>>     2011/5/30 Martin Juhl <mj@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>>
>>         Wont launching the browser with optirun work????
>>
>>
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>>         *Fra: *"Héctor Franqui" <hfzorman@xxxxxxxxx
>>         <mailto:hfzorman@xxxxxxxxx>>
>>         *Til: *hybrid-graphics-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>         *Sendt: *mandag, 30. maj 2011 20:04:57
>>         *Emne: *[Hybrid-graphics-linux] Loading a web java applet
>>         with        optirun64/bumblebee
>>
>>
>>         One of my primary objectives for enabling the NVIDIA card on
>>         Linux is to play a Java-based online game named Runescape.
>>         The game has HD graphics which only run well with the NVIDIA
>>         turned on, however I'm currently unable to call Java with
>>         optirun64. I think this is because Firefox uses the Java
>>         plugin as intermediary and so I can't create a shortcut or
>>         launcher which calls optirun and Java in order for the later
>>         to be accelerated. Any idea on how to call Java using optirun?
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