On 07.05.2018 20:58, Knurpht @ openSUSE wrote:
Op maandag 7 mei 2018 20:51:24 CEST schreef Daniel Bauer:
The "double-gpu's" with nvidia ("optimus") do *not* work on opensuse. It is as disaster. Buy the cheapest box you find, opensuse doesn't deserve better. Or stay with a mobile phone. ...
Sorry, but the generalization here is nonsense. I did install ( recently, on a couple of recent laptops with dual grahics ) and albeit needing some tinkering, it works fine. Unless my customers do not report non-functional laptops, which I doubt.
Ok, my rant was hard, I know. But having my laptop with non-working
No problem. Questions: - Is your user a member of the bumblebee group ( if existing )
No. I never uses bumblebee, but suse-prime which simply switches (switched...) between the two graphic cards. bumblebee was never on my screen, first because of complicated handling (need to start programs from console instead of a click in dolphin - with many images to click and issue; second because of the overhead of kind of running two X's at the same time)
- Ditto of the video group
Wasn't. I added me now to the video group.
- Do the packages re. Bumblebee install properly?
not installed, see above.
- Is running stuff on the Intel an issue?
Yes. Power is not enough for high-res videos (ok, then I dont watch videos) but important: in VirtualBox, runnig win, there is a very strong delay in all graphics, images load very slow, staying unsharp for several seconds, changes on the images in the software take long and cause the screen to flicker for a moment). This happened also before using intel, but everything run fine using nvidia.
- Do the NVIDIA kernel modules build properly?
Yes
Mind, the laptops I was speaking of are not available, they're customer's machines.
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