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[David Overcash <funnylookinhat@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's a fair response - except that it completely avoids the issue that 90%
of laptops shipped with NVidia chips ( estimated statistic, don't quote me
) are using an Optimus configuration, rendering the "fantastic" NVidia
driver completely moot.

I realize that X is in no state to support switchable graphics, but at
least a solution to provide using either one chip or the other would be
MORE than sufficient.  :)

Cheers,
David

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:54 AM, jason peel <jason.peel1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> in fairness that is a sound response - after all its a business
>
> BTW did I say thanks for the hardware Bumblebee Devs put in!
>
> I know precisious little about how things work but would love to get
> involved somehow.  I use Bumblebee for running Graphics apps such as
> Blender and because later this year I start learning C++ & openGL.  I have
> started the C++ bit already so I know very basic stuff.  Is there anyway in
> which I can get involved?
>
>
> Jason
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Eric Appleman <erappleman@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Supporting Linux is important to NVIDIA, and we understand that there
>> are people who are as passionate about Linux as an open source platform
>> as we are passionate about delivering an awesome GPU experience.
>>
>> Recently, there have been some questions raised about our lack of
>> support for our Optimus notebook technology. When we launched our
>> Optimus notebook technology, it was with support for Windows 7 only. The
>> open source community rallied to work around this with support from the
>> Bumblebee Open Source Project http://bumblebee-project.org/. And as a
>> result, we've recently made Installer and readme changes in our R295
>> drivers that were designed to make interaction with Bumblebee easier.
>>
>> While we understand that some people would prefer us to provide detailed
>> documentation on all of our GPU internals, or be more active in Linux
>> kernel community development discussions, we have made a decision to
>> support Linux on our GPUs by leveraging NVIDIA common code, rather than
>> the Linux common infrastructure. While this may not please everyone, it
>> does allow us to provide the most consistent GPU experience to our
>> customers, regardless of platform or operating system.
>>
>> As a result:
>>
>> 1) Linux end users benefit from same-day support for new GPUs , OpenGL
>> version and extension parity between NVIDIA Windows and NVIDIA Linux
>> support, and OpenGL performance parity between NVIDIA Windows and NVIDIA
>> Linux.
>>
>> 2) We support a wide variety of GPUs on Linux, including our latest
>> GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla-class GPUs, for both desktop and notebook
>> platforms. Our drivers for these platforms are updated regularly, with
>> seven updates released so far this year for Linux alone. The latest
>> Linux drivers can be downloaded from www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html.
>>
>> 3) We are a very active participant in the ARM Linux kernel. For the
>> latest 3.4 ARM kernel – the next-gen kernel to be used on future Linux,
>> Android, and Chrome distributions – NVIDIA ranks second in terms of
>> total lines changed and fourth in terms of number of changesets for all
>> employers or organizations.
>>
>> At the end of the day, providing a consistent GPU experience across
>> multiple platforms for all of our customers continues to be one of our
>> key goals.
>>
>> Source: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=184564
>>
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