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Summary
Support of the Optimus technology (without Bumblebee nor Primus), with installation of the Nvidia proprietary drivers and offloading support (bbswitch). Something like Nvidia Prime that will be soon proposed by Debian.
Owner
- Name: Asked by Lebarhon for Dupo (MLO)
- Email: Lebarhon@free.fr
Resources
List here people who will be implied in this feature (packagers, QA, doc, ...)
Current status
- Targeted release: Mageia 5
- Last updated: 2024/03/28
- Percentage of completion: <XX>%
Detailed Description
About Nvidia Prime:
- Better performances than Bumblebee and Primus.
- Upstream Optimus management like for Windows.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-prime
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/more-work-to-support-nvidia-optimus.html
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/prime-indicator-lets-you-quickly-switch.html
Why it would be good for Mageia to include it
- Better perfomances for the user
- Os able to manage the modern technologies
- Mageia must not fall behind the other Linux distros
Test case
Anything useful for QA and all testers to help debugging during all development cycle
Software / Packages Dependencies
List of packages to be implied
What could disrupt development of this new feature
Planning
Contingency
Release Notes
Documentation
Include here any needed information or link to documentation