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Bumblebee daemon is a rewrite of the original
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[Bumblebee](https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee-old)
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service, providing an elegant and stable means of managing Optimus
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hybrid graphics chipsets. A primary goal of this project is to not only
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enable use of the discrete GPU for rendering, but also to enable
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smart power management of the dGPU when it's not in use.
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Source tarballs can be downloaded from
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https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/downloads
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The following packages are dependencies for the build process:
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- glib-2.0 and development headers
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- libx11 and development headers
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- libbsd and development headers (if pidfile support is enabled, default yes)
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- help2man (optional, it is needed for building manual pages)
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If you are building from git, you will also need:
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- autotools (2.68+ recommended)
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If you want to use `optirun` for running applications with the discrete nVidia
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card, you will also need:
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- At least one back-end for `optirun`:
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- [virtualgl](http://virtualgl.org/)
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- [primus](https://github.com/amonakov/primus) (beta)
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- Driver for nvidia graphics card: [nouveau](http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/)
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or the proprietary nvidia driver. Don't install it directly from nvidia.com
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as it will break 3D capabilities on the Intel graphics card and therefore
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affect the display of frames from the nvidia card.
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If you want to make use of Power Management, you will need:
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- [bbswitch](https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch)
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- If you're brave and want to try the `switcheroo` method, install at least the
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[optimus patch](http://lekensteyn.nl/files/nouveau-switcheroo-optimus.patch)
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(merged in Linux 3.3). Note that suspend is not yet supported by this
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If you are building from git, you first need to run `autoreconf -fi` to generate
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the `configure` script.
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Next, run the configure script to check for dependencies and populate the
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To set the default driver to `nvidia` and adjust the library and module paths
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for it, use `./configure` like:
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./configure CONF_DRIVER=nvidia CONF_DRIVER_MODULE_NVIDIA=nvidia-current \
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CONF_LDPATH_NVIDIA=/usr/lib/nvidia-current:/usr/lib32/nvidia-current \
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CONF_MODPATH_NVIDIA=/usr/lib/nvidia-current/xorg,/usr/lib/xorg/modules
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For all available options, run:
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After configuring, you can build the binaries with:
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Installing System-wide and Packaging
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You can build the binaries and set the system wide paths at configure time
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./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
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After building the binaries and bash completion script, it can be installed
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together with an udev rule (unless `--without-udev-rules` was passed) using
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For packagers you need to add DESTDIR=$pkgdir
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make install DESTDIR=$pkgdir
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Example initscripts are available in the `scripts/` directory. Currently,
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Upstart, systemd and Sys V initscripts are available.
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The first time you install Bumblebee, the `bumblebee` group has to be created.
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Users who are allowed to use Bumblebee need to be added to the group:
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sudo groupadd bumblebee
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sudo gpasswd -a $USER bumblebee
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To run Bumblebee after installing it system-wide, run:
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sudo bumblebeed --daemon
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optirun -- <application>
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For more information, try `--help` on either of the two binaries.
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- Facebook: http://www.bumblebee-project.org/facebook
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- Twitter: http://www.bumblebee-project.org/twitter
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- Google Plus: http://www.bumblebee-project.org/g+
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- Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee
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- Arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee
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- Mandriva wiki: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Bumblebee
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- Debian wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee
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