Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 20:11:53 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?B?RXlq82xmdXIgS+FyaSBGcmnw/mrzZnNzb24=?= <ekf1@hi.is> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvidia optimus laptops Message-ID: <CAN6yY1ujwkv%2BjO3wAqxca-YA6LyeEKOsgK6zDoRc5kbie=ULWQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a120d3bb9659517b297c8e0f14f10623.squirrel@webmail.hi.is> References: <a120d3bb9659517b297c8e0f14f10623.squirrel@webmail.hi.is>
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2012/2/1 Eyj=F3lfur K=E1ri Fri=F0=FEj=F3fsson <ekf1@hi.is>: > Any plans on getting the nvidia optimus gpu=B4s working fulltime on BSD? > Its working on linux trough bumblebee 3.0 and virtualgl with some fake > xserver and its blazing fast! I can run the Unigine Heaven and tropics > benchmarks in opengl with tesselation faster then on directx11 on windows= . > Thing is i would love to be able to switch from xbuntu to FreeBsd + xfce > but i hate having hardware thats not doing what its supposed to inside my > computer? > > SLI is another issue, getting multiple gpu=B4s to work together > Nvidia has been much better with their driver suppport then ATI but 3d > gaming is ofc not big on unix unless OSX gains some ground > > Anyway i would love to see someone port bumblebee 3.0 ( or the fork > ironhide) to the BSD platform and get it running with opengl 4 on BSD > fullspeed!!! I'd love to see this, too, but I think we'll need to wait until kib is finished with KMS and it's in9-stable (or, at very least in head before we can even think about Optimus support. Would be cool, though --=20 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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