Hello Steven,
Thank you for the feedback.
if it's unmaintained I'd be okay if it would be in a particular devel
project that people can add to their system if they really want to.
We should probably tweak our release notes + wiki to reflect that
(mentioning enablement of bumblebee dev project).
Otherwise we should really move dkms somewhere else to another
devproject, where we have project maintainers.
As dkms is actively maintained based on the history.
Lubos
On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 3:24 PM Steven Lee
Hello Lubos, while I agree that Prime does something similar and make a good use of the Nvidia card, I have to disagree that the Prime does NOT replace Bumblebee. I tried to leave a comment on the delete request but I am repeated getting 502 gate error at the login page.
Bumblebee allows: 1. Selecting specific GPU for specific cuda jobs and graphics computation jobs without logout. 2. Allows projection of specific monitors using the dGPU. 3. Item 1 can be achieved also on a desktop with multiple Nvidia GPUs.
It is still very useful in many cases and Prime does not supersed it. Prime is a good alternative for average users' case.
While it is not officially maintained, there are ways to keep bumblebee fully operational in Kernel 5 still and when I have time I am happy to make it work in Kernel 6 as well. I would like to ask you to keep bumblebee in the repo with the hopes of someone taking up the maintaining role officially.
-- Best regards Luboš Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager