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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

The bumblebee installation takes care of all the dependencies.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Srimal Jayawardena <srimalj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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