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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Eric,

I was wondering if there have been any recent developments on having
VDPAU working on hybrid systems together with bumblebee/ironhide
solutions for application-specific acceleration.

Cheers

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Eric Appleman <erappleman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/02/2011 12:32 AM, Mark Constable wrote:
>>
>> On 2011-11-01 11:24 PM, Eric Appleman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is there a place where I could find the step-by-step instructions
>>>
>>> (voila)...
>>
>> Thanks Eric, even though I'm not on Ubuntu that is clear enough to
>> almost give me enough confidence to try it out.
>>
>> Just wondering, why aren't instructions like yours somewhere on a
>> website right next to where folks first find out about using this
>> software?
>>
>> I want my entire desktop to use my nvidia gfx so is it possible to
>> incorporate this with startx, or similar?
>>
>>
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>
> It's not on a website because it uses highly experimental code and
> techniques that could put your machine in a less than ideal configuration.
> If you're using an Optimus laptop as both your production and testing
> machine like I am, you need to be able to handle those situations. Besides,
> I prefer sharing new ideas through screencasts since they better convey the
> concepts I'm trying to demonstrate.
>
> If you want a desktop on the Nvidia card, the best way to do it is starting
> a DE (Gnome-Shell, Unity, etc) on :8 and have windump completely overlap the
> Intel desktop. All programs launched from the Nvidia desktop will run on the
> GPU.
>
> However, I don't know how to make all this happen as part of the boot
> process.
>
>
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