<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Rick,<br><br></div>Sounds delicious! I will be there.<br><br></div>Fedora 24 is the current release and has been out since June and is what I have on my Lenovo laptop. But I have never played with linux on Optimus hardware.<br><br></div><div>This is the best writeup I have found on the various options for Optimus support on linux as of last October:<br><a href="http://www.thelinuxrain.com/articles/the-state-of-nvidia-optimus-on-linux">http://www.thelinuxrain.com/articles/the-state-of-nvidia-optimus-on-linux</a><br></div><div><br></div>My question is whether his laptop came with a Windows installation that he wants to preserve? Mine came with Windows 10 and also has some partitions reserved for recovery purposes as no one provides windows installation disks any more. I shrank my windows partition and made mine dual-boot with fedora while preserving all the recovery stuff. A gparted usb key worked well for shrinking the windows partition to make room for fedora.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Rick Moen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Quoting Leo P (<a href="mailto:yaconsult@gmail.com">yaconsult@gmail.com</a>):<br>
<br>
> The Bumblebee project appears to provide good support for Optimus under<br>
> fedora: <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/<wbr>wiki/Bumblebee</a> with various options<br>
> available from the Bumblebee repository.<br>
<br>
</span>Yeah, hold that thought. He did have a go at that, and reports:<br>
<br>
After posting on fedora forums, it appeared that the fedora solution<br>
to handle the dual graphic card approach of Optimus is to install<br>
Bumbleebee:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/<wbr>wiki/Bumblebee</a><br>
<br>
I also tried to enable the intel graphic of the Optimus in order to work<br>
as usual with a simple Nvidia card, but my BIOS does not offer this<br>
possibility.<br>
<br>
I'll send his full e-mail to the mailing list soon. (Nicholas is not on<br>
this mailing list, I believe.)<br>
<span class=""><br>
<br>
> While not Optimus, on my primary desktop, I use the binary nvidia drivers<br>
> repackaged by rpmfusion and they have always been rock solid and the latest<br>
> version. The packaging done by rpmfusion ensures that everything is kept<br>
> in sync as opposed to downloading and installing the driver directly from<br>
> nvidia and using an install shell script. Bumblebee appears to provide the<br>
> same convenience for Optimus.<br>
<br>
</span>That's covered in another part of his mail:<br>
<br>
I tried to install the driver from NvIdia website but this did not<br>
work at all. I also tried to install the depot RPM as explained below:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/251629/how-to-install-nvidia-proprietary-drivers-on-fedora-23" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://unix.stackexchange.com/<wbr>questions/251629/how-to-<wbr>install-nvidia-proprietary-<wbr>drivers-on-fedora-23</a><br>
<br>
That's the <a href="http://rpmfusion.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">rpmfusion.org</a> approach.<br>
<span class=""><br>
<br>
> If you want to bring your own fedora image on usb key or dvd, you can<br>
> either get the generic desktop at:<br>
> <a href="https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://getfedora.org/en/<wbr>workstation/download/</a><br>
> or a specific desktop spin, if you have a preference, at<br>
> <a href="https://spins.fedoraproject.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://spins.fedoraproject.<wbr>org/</a><br>
<br>
</span>He says he's burned Fedora 23 to a DVD and will bring it. (It sounds<br>
like he's burned a number of other distros, and isn't picky about which<br>
he uses.)<br>
<br>
Looking forward to seeing you, Leo. I have ribs marinating in a nice<br>
chile pepper, lime, and ginger sauce (and Ross is bringing a different<br>
variety, sous-vided).<br>
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