Tuesday, March 13, 2018

drivers - How do I get Bumblebee working on Ubuntu 14.04?

I have an Alienware 14 that I plan to dual boot Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04 on. I'm wondering what the best procedure to get Bumblebee working is.




Would I be okay to install bumblebee (if someone could give me the exact package names I need to install I'd appreciate it) and then go get the latest NVIDIA drivers from NVIDIA's website? The "Additional Drivers" section only has version 331 which is outdated.



From what I understand, NVIDIA has their own solution but it drains battery life. Ideally, I'd like to be able to just select which GPU I want to use to run a program just like in Windows.

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