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[Srimal Jayawardena <srimalj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bilal

I'm kind of new to this.

Do I only install bumblebee after installing Ubuntu or

should some restricted driver in Ubuntu be enabled before installing bumblebee?

Thanks in advance

Srimal.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/20/2011 02:06 PM, srimalj wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Has the current version of Bumblebee been tested to work on the
>>
>> NVIDIA® GeForce GT 540M w/Optimus 1GB on a Toshiba Satellite P750/02J
>> Notebook ?
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running a Dell XPS 15 L502X with the same graphic card (GT 540M with
> Optimus). The OS I'm running is Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha. Bumblebee works
> well, gives me a 10x increase in FPS when games are run on the nVidia
> card. So, hopefully your laptop should also work well. Bumblebee also
> switches off the card when not needed, in my case. But this varies on a
> per-laptop basis. Power switching might or might not work with your
> laptop, even though both laptops have the same discrete GPU.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Bilal Akhtar.
>
>>
>> If so what feature do and do not work please?
>>
>> There is a good deal for this laptop at dicksmith and I'm tempted to buy
>> but I work primarily in linux so I would like to be able to use it with
>> Ubuntu 11.04 or later.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Srimal
>
>
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