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[Gary Gatling <gsgatlin@xxxxxxxx>]

Greetings Hybrid Linux folks.

I am trying to get bumblebee optimus technology to work on my centOS 6 box.
Perhaps it is impossible for that particular distro to work...

I downloaded and installed the NVidia drivers from elrepo.org for my
distro. But when I install them my desktop goes upside down and also all
the letters are backwards! So the elrepo drivers won't work without a lot
of modifications I'm guessing. Uninstalling the elrepo rpms fixes the
desktop upside down / backwards issues.

When I install the proprietary nvidia driver from NVidia's web site, as
described in the docs, it does in fact break 3D capabilities on the Intel
graphics card and "therefore affect the display of frames from the nvidia
card." So it seems I'm stuck at this point.

Uninstalling the  proprietary nvidia driver from NVidia's web site with
"-uninstall" fixes it so the 3d capabilities of the intel card work again
thank goodness. :) (I have compiz turned on so I noticed that  right away)

So my question is this...

Is there a way I could install the proprietary nvidia driver from NVidia's
web site and then "fix" it so that the intel driver still works with 3d?
(Perhaps the proprietary nvidia driver from NVidia's web site needs
additional command line arguments?)
Or maybe its just a matter of copying over a few files the installer messed
up? These files must get preserved someplace since "sh
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run -k $(uname -r) -uninstall" fixes the intel
3d problems.

I was able to locate the rpms I would need for this project such as
VirtualGL (at version 2.3) and other dependencies such as  libbsd-devel
rpm. I am able to compile the bumblebee package just fine without configure
arguments. I guess I'm stuck now at NVidia drivers are messing up my intel
card's 3d capabilities.

I have bbswitch already installed and working on my laptop, a lenovo Y470.
Any thoughts or ideas welcome. :) Thanks a lot.