← Back to team overview

sony-vaio-z-series team mailing list archive

Bumblebee z11 success

 

Hi Craig, and all

I just had to dig this old thread up to see whats up.

What you were essentially saying is that it's possible to use the NVIDIA card 
via bumblebee with Vaio Z11 which, to my understanding, does *not* have 
Optimus but a "dynamic hybrid graphics system"?

I'm trying to bring my four-year-old VPCZ11Z9E back to life with Linux. Nvidia 
drivers work but won't recognize my display (i.e. accelerates but HDMI or 
screen configuration doesn't work); bumblebee just says I don't have an NVIDIA 
discrete graphics card and crashes all over me. I, too, think I don't have 
NVIDIA discrete graphics card (in optimus sense) but the fact that you had it 
working got me suspicious.

Can you give your Z11's exact model?

Anyone else tried this? 

Thanks!

> Craig S. Blackie Fri, 06 Apr 2012 06:28:14 -0700
> 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


Follow ups

References