How To Document For Optimus

[YFDogan]

Hi friends,

After trying the most popular distros I decided to use Scientific Linux. But I couldnt find a How To Document to install bumblebee, bbswitch and the Nvidia/ Nouveau Drivers. If there is an user with Optimus Technology included laptop, may you write a 'How To .. ' document. Step by step to instlall this components please.

Cheers.

[toracat]

Yes, such a documentation would be nice. For now, those who are trying to get going with Optimus may want to look into the following packages from ELRepo:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/bumblebee
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-bbswitch

Note that they are still in the testing repo.

[YFDogan]

Thanks for reply.

But can u tell me how to install?

for example like this:

yum install bumblebee
or
yum install bbswitch
yum install drivers for nvidia/nouveau
(how should I do this installations)

and adding the bumblebee and bbswitch into rc.conf daemons and modules?

[toracat]

Once elrepo is set up on SL (yum install elrepo-release), you can install the packages by:

CODE

yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install kmod-bbswitch bumblebee

Unfortunately my help stops here. I do not have proper hardware to test further. If you are doing the setup, try posting questions on the ELRepo mailing list. Rob Mokkink (maintainer of bumblebee for ELRepo) is there. For example, look for the posts entitled "Bumblebee on CentOS6" here:

http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2012-May/thread.html#1252