From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 2 04:11:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE44106564A for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 04:11:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com (mail-wi0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 659F38FC16 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 04:11:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn14 with SMTP id hn14so2256293wib.13 for ; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:11:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=G7+9DtksxEMxs7fJTePOXs71vHNawZvR2qDS7rW5O88=; b=e6EKrbnTFTh6+SfXbvbIp4NTspkFZpva48BX30jHuCVKbB9lX5vDwxjIsN3K1tYs1A UyEjUOWSYcTNVNth2MdH5qKpJ0ju7PD5afZU40MEN7+guFQrJ+BN8OHns88+Yd7cCuAN qmVyH4eSyY2G4hfvSPhRgzvCIKSEK/uuxQTdQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.107.68 with SMTP id ha4mr1900983wib.9.1328155913407; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:11:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.101.196 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 20:11:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 20:11:53 -0800 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: =?ISO-8859-1?B?RXlq82xmdXIgS+FyaSBGcmnw/mrzZnNzb24=?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvidia optimus laptops X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:11:54 -0000 2012/2/1 Eyj=F3lfur K=E1ri Fri=F0=FEj=F3fsson : > 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