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[Bruno Pagani <bruno.n.pagani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Really appreciate your motivation, and you're far more skilled in some 
ways than some of us (me at least, I don't know C/C++ really).

Bumblebee is in fact a temporary solution, but the question is how long 
would it be ? Here, we are all optimistic about Optimus support by 
nouveau, bu we're also realist, so, we pursue our efforts.

In my opinion, you should start by reading the Bumblebee Project wiki 
(https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki), which contains a 
lot of usefull informations for developers, and then take a look at our 
current work, bumblebeed 
(https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bumblebeed), the bumblebee project 
rewrited in C with a lot of improvements.

Also, you should join #bumblebee-dev on IRC/Freenode.

Bruno Pagani,
Member of the Bumblebee Project Team.

Le 21/12/2011 21:25, Daniel Marth a écrit :
> 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
>
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