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[Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/21/2011 03:06 AM, Srimal Jayawardena 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?

Umm no. You don't need to. All you have to do is add the bumblebee PPA,
install the bumblebee package, and it'll manage everything on itself.
Simple as that. If you enable a driver beforehand, you might end up with
bumblebee getting confused with the config files.

Hope it helps,

Bilal Akhtar.
> 
> 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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