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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

Although the open source nouveau drivers are constantly improving, I
think right now the only
solution is to use bumblebee/ironhide, that internally uses the binary
Nvidia drivers and CUDA SDK.

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Srimal Jayawardena <srimalj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> Since NVIDIA does not have linux drivers for Optimus cards,
>
> is it possible to do CUDA with the Generic / OpenSource drivers?
>
> Cheers
>
> Srimal.
>
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Find here the Ubuntu 10.10 installation instructions for cuda on
>> Linux:https://github.com/run4flat/perl_nvcc/wiki/Installing
>>
>> It's more than a year old, so it may not work...
>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Alexandre Saint <snt.alex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 2011/12/16 David Overcash <funnylookinhat@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> If you want to play it safe, just get a laptop with a discrete graphics card
>>>> and no onboard graphics.  If you try to use Optimus with any CUDA based
>>>> work, you'll have to do quite a bit of work on top of what you're already
>>>> programming to get things to turn out well.  :)
>>>>
>>> What extra bit of work are you referring to? The installation of
>>> Bumblebee or Ironhide?
>>> I plan to develop OpenCL programs in the near future on my Optimus
>>> equipped laptop. I'm using Ironhide to gain access to the gpu. Though
>>> I didn't try to set up the OpenCL environment yet, any feedback in
>>> that direction would be very welcome.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Alexandre
>>>
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