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["Craig S. Blackie" <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well I decided to have a play and have had a certain degree of success:

http://i.imgur.com/fKDm5.jpg


This was achieved using:

 DISPLAY=:8 optirun glxspheres

I was able to watch a movie with VLC using this same technique however 
the sound came from my laptop and not HDMI.

The resolution as you tell is also wrong and seems to be only 640x480, 
I'm no X ninja so I'm currently hacking my way through the settings in 
/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia to try and run it at 1920x1080.

If anyone else is wiling to try this and let me know if they have any 
more ideas I'd be grateful!

Craig

On 08/04/12 22:07, Jordi Augé wrote:
> That's pretty cool, I think most of us eventually stopped trying to get bumblebee to work.
>
> Just one question, are you able to use the HDMI output with this configuration? As far as I know, it's only wired to the nvidia card!
>
> Thanks!
>
> ----- Missatge Original -----
> De: "Craig S. Blackie"<craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> A: "Sony Vaio Z-series Laptop"<sony-vaio-z-series@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Enviat: Divendres, 6 de Abril 6el 2012 15:27:56
> Assumpte: [Sony-vaio-z-series] Bumblebee z11 success
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I think I must be pushing my luck, I decided to install bumblebee today:
> https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/
> Rebooted with the switch in 'auto' position.
> Upon booting, I checked power usuage:
>
> "The battery reports a discharge rate of 11.6 W"
>
> Ran glxspheres:
>
> csb@csb-laptop:~$ glxspheres
> Polygons in scene: 62464
> Visual ID of window: 0x92
> Context is Direct
> OpenGL Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Mobile
> 20.078867 frames/sec - 22.408016 Mpixels/sec
> 26.432012 frames/sec - 29.498126 Mpixels/sec
> 29.906124 frames/sec - 33.375235 Mpixels/sec
> 28.067554 frames/sec - 31.323390 Mpixels/sec
>
>
> Now for the real test:
> csb@csb-laptop:~$ optirun glxspheres
> Polygons in scene: 62464
> Visual ID of window: 0x21
> Context is Direct
> OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GT 330M/PCIe/SSE2
> 74.902735 frames/sec - 83.591453 Mpixels/sec
> 127.273131 frames/sec - 97.262626 Mpixels/sec
> 169.620041 frames/sec - 115.070236 Mpixels/sec
> 174.924951 frames/sec - 118.669087 Mpixels/sec
> 166.887317 frames/sec - 113.216356 Mpixels/sec
> 171.806394 frames/sec - 116.553458 Mpixels/sec
> 167.313173 frames/sec - 113.505256 Mpixels/sec
>
>
> That will do me!
>
> Just modify the launcher of any application that needs the GPU to use
> 'optirun'.
>
> Hope this works for you.
>
> Craig
>
>
> P.S.
> Linux csb-laptop 3.2.0-21-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 30 04:25:35 UTC
> 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> csb@csb-laptop:~$ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu precise (development branch)
> Release:    12.04
> Codename:    precise
>
>
>
>
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