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[Daniel Marth <danielmarth@xxxxxx>]

Hi!

A few months ago I bought a Dell XPS 17 L702X (i7-2720QM, NVIDIA GT 
550M). I always trusted in the NVIDIA drivers, although closed source I 
never had problems in the past few years. Unfortunately I was unaware of 
Optimus...
Now I want to tell you a bit about my person. I'm 18 years old and I 
have been programing C/C++ for 5 years and know several other languages 
(Java, Perl, Python). Another thing I already used is NASM on 
x86/x64-Linux. Linux (mostly Ubuntu/Kubuntu) has been running on my 
machines for 3 years now. I know that this isn't much compared to other 
people, but I'm permanently learning more and improving my skills.
What now? I want to contribute! Of course I'm aware that it will take me 
several months or even years to produce anything useful. So does it make 
sense to start working on Bumblebee or IronHide or is this just a 
temporary solution until the Nouveau driver and X server get ready for 
this? Can you recommend me any good literature/tutorials? Any hints 
where to start?

Thanks in advance,
Daniel Marth