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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

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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

http://www.pcinpact.com/news/84863-nvidia-prime-optimus-sous-ubuntu-14-04-via-interface-graphique.htm

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

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Software / Packages Dependencies

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Planning

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Release Notes

Documentation

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