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[Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx>]

TBP/Bumblebee supports the opensource nouveau driver, but this driver does
not provide CUDA support afaik.

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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