Am Samstag, 16. Mai 2015, 21:51:56 schrieb Sonny Michaud:
At this point, however, everything is somewhat sluggish running on the Intel card.
I'd say the intel card should be good enough to run the desktop. Have a look into Systemsettings(5)->Display and Monitor->Compositor and set the Rendering Backend to "OpenGL 2". It might automatically have been reverted to "XRender" because of your broken OpenGL support. If it is set to "OpenGL", you could also try setting it to "XRender". And check whether you are actually using intel's OpenGL support now (and the intel driver at all), or rather Mesa's software renderer (which of course is much slower). "glxinfo | grep render" should tell (glxinfo is in the package "Mesa-demo-x"), or see the OpenGL information in KInfocenter.
If I completely remove bumblebee and simply use the proprietary driver, should that work?
No. Without Bumblebee you cannot use nvidia at all on Optimus systems, unless you have a monitor directly connected to the nvidia card. But that might not even be possible hardware-wise. Anyway, the internal display is only connected to the intel chip on most Optimus systems AFAIK. If you are lucky, you can switch between intel and nvidia in the BIOS settings, then you could also use the standard nvidia driver. But again, Plasma5 shoud work fine on an intel chip. I have it running here on a quite old one, from times when Optimus didn't even exist yet.
Simply disabling the bumblebeed service did not work; does the desktop always run on the Intel card even when BB is not enabled?
Yes. Bumblebee's purpose is to power down the nvidia card when it's not in use (but the kernel should do that anyway nowadays I think), and allow switching to the nvidia card and running applications on it. If you disable the bumblebeed service, you simply disable the possibility to switch to the nvidia card, so yes in that case the desktop will run on intel as well. But actually I have no experience with Bumblebee/Optimus myself, so I'm afraid I'm not really able to help you further with that. Kind Regards, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org