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Bumblebee is a software solution trying to support nVidia Optimus laptops

Bumblebee is a solution for supporting laptops. It allows you to use the discrete nVidia card and disabling it for a longer battery life.

The project's homepage is at http://www.bumblebee-project.org/

Documentation is available at: http://wiki.bumblebee-project.org/

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Bumblebee Overheating

My laptop Samsung RF411(Geforce 540M) is overheating when i run optirun glxspheres the temperature of the core jumps to 97C and the GPU to 72C and after some minuties the computer shutdown. An strange thing is that the GPU in Windows goes 84C and…
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Why is primusrun slower than optirun?

Could someone please explain these results? Is primusrun too smart for glxspheres and simply not doing extra work? ...:~$ glxspheres Polygons in scene: 62464 Visual ID of window: 0xaf Context is Direct OpenGL Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge…
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Ubuntu 12.04 - Bumblebee 3.1 - Error - Unable to locate package Bumblebee

Hello Ubuntu citizens, I am on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (up-to-date) and was trying to install the new Bumblebee 3.1 First, I tried to remove Bumblebee first using: sudo apt-get install ppa-purge sudo ppa-purge ppa:bumblebee/stable Then I re-install…
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If running on discrete card with Bumblebee, will games on Steam also run on said card?

I have Steam running on Ubuntu and loaded using 'optirun'. Will it follow that games that are started through Steam will also be using the Nvidia discrete card? It doesn't seem to look that way. What commands can be used to tell that it's running on…
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Where is the supported graphics card list by bumblebee project?

I want to get the latest list. I can't find it on main page of bumblebee. Is that support GTX670M? Thank you~
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Optirun Bumblebee crash

Whenever I try to run some programs under bumblebee with optirun they crash before displaying any window. I particularly try to run supermeatboy because it doesn't support intel cards, but with bumblebee it doesn't get even to displaying a window…
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The point about Bumblebee

As I assume, Bumblebee can automatically switch between graphic cards and you can force an application to use exact GPU (though you don't have to). The switch is to save power (as nVidia GPU is stronger but consumes more power). Am I right?
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IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/default/bumblebee'

I got this problem, I don't know how to solve it ... Please help me. $ sudo bumblebee-app-settings Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/bumblebee-app-settings", line 37, in import Config File…
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Errors In Bumblebee

I recently installed bumblebee.My problem is when I ran any command in terminal it showed me an error.If I run following commands in terminal bumblebeed --driver DRIVER bumblebeed --group GROUP bumblebeed --pidfile FILE it shows me following…
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What programs should I use optirun or primusrun for?

Is there an easy way to find out if I should run a program with primusrun? For example - Wolfram Mathematica - it can do without it but what if it runs smoother with it? Would it be bad to always use primusrun, as bumblebee's purpose, if I'm…
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How to optirun .sh file?

I managed to get as far as optirun glxgear, which worked perfectly, but I am unable to define settings for a specific shell script. In its wiki it says this: optirun [options] [application-parameters] and I don't know what option has…
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Laptop gets too hot

My laptop has Intel (integrated) and Nvidia graphic cards. I have installed bumblebee. But laptop is still getting too hot. How can I check if I have done everything correctly?
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