Bumblebee daemon is a rewrite of the original Bumblebee service, providing an elegant and stable means of managing Optimus hybrid graphics chipsets. A primary goal of this project is to not only enable use of the discrete GPU for rendering, but also to enable smart power management of the dGPU when it's not in use.
- pkg-config
- autotools (2.68+ recommended)
- glib-2.0 and development headers
- libx11 and development headers
- libbsd and development headers (if pidfile support is enabled, default yes)
If you want to use optirun for running applications with the discrete nVidia
card, you will also need:
- virtualgl
- Driver for nvidia graphics card: nouveau or the proprietary nvidia driver. Don't install it directly from nvidia.com as it will break 3D capabilities on the Intel graphics card and therefore affect the display of frames from the nvidia card.
If you want to make use of Power Management, you will need:
- bbswitch
- If you're brave and want to try the
switcheroomethod, install at least the optimus patch. Note that suspend is not yet supported by this method.
autoreconf -fi
./configure
make
sudo bin/bumblebeed --daemon
bin/optirun -- <application>
For more information, try --help on either of the two binaries.
You can build the binaries and set the system wide paths at configure time
autoreconf -fi
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
make
To set the default driver to nvidia and adjust the library and module paths
for it, use ./configure like:
./configure CONF_DRIVER=nvidia CONF_DRIVER_MODULE_NVIDIA=nvidia-current \
CONF_LDPATH_NVIDIA=/usr/lib/nvidia-current:/usr/lib32/nvidia-current \
CONF_MODPATH_NVIDIA=/usr/lib/nvidia-current/xorg,/usr/lib/xorg/modules \
--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
For all available options, run:
./configure --help
After building the binaries they can be installed using make:
sudo make install
For packagers you need to add DESTDIR=$pkgdir
make install DESTDIR=$pkgdir