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["Fabio Giovagnini" <fabio.giovagnini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi
I have same computer.
I installed ubuntu 11.04 32 and 64 bit.
With which distro did you make the experiment?
Could you tell me please what has been the step by step procedure you have
followed after a clean frash operating system installation?

Thanks a lot in advance

> Hello all,
>
> Quite bummed I didn't research nvidia support on this laptop before I
> purchased it. Nvidia worked fine on my old XPS m1730 so I thought it would
> work on this new XPS 17. oh well.
> So optirun seems to work quite well on this laptop as below. Is it
> possible
> for this optirun/bumblebee setup to work automatically without specifying
> optirun on the command line? eg: if I launch google chrome it will
> automatically support glx (like my old xps laptop)?
>
> Cheers heaps!
> Dave
>
>
> opening http://webglsamples.googlecode.com/hg/aquarium/aquarium.html in
> chrome normally reported my computer did not support webgl
> however running chrome through optirun worked fine, here is a screenshot:
> http://dtbaker.com.au/webimages/optirun_1.png (63 fps with 1000 fish)
>
>
> dtbaker@Dellbuntu:~$ glxgears
> Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
>  (didn't open glxgears)
>
> dtbaker@Dellbuntu:~$ optirun glxgears
> 2822 frames in 5.0 seconds = 564.188 FPS
> 2731 frames in 5.0 seconds = 545.975 FPS
> Another bumblebee powered application is running, keeping bumblebee alive.
>
> dtbaker@Dellbuntu:~$ sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
> Dell System XPS L702X
>
> dtbaker@Dellbuntu:~$ sudo dmidecode -s system-version
> Not Specified
>
> dtbaker@Dellbuntu:~$ lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if
> /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/' | grep VGA
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation
> Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09)
> (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device
> [10de:0dcd] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
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