[PD] [semi-OT] binary nvidia drivers on Debian Linux for Gem

Charles Z Henry czhenry at gmail.com
Fri Jun 12 02:08:58 CEST 2020


On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 5:21 AM Peter P. <peterparker at fastmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
...
> Furthermore, if the laptop has two graphics cards, one intel and one
> nvidia, which I understand is called Optimus™ by Nvidia, there seems to
> be the bumblebee project to use this under Linux (with one free
> implementation in bumblebee and one non-free in bumblebee-nvidia
> packages). This package also provides the optirun binary which
> apparently can be used to start specific programs with one of the two
> cards explicitely?

Try building Gem with/without optirun on your machine and check the
config status.

In the first build directory, do
./configure
make

In a 2nd directory, do
optirun ./configure
optirun make

You should see differences in the config.log and check for differences
in libraries linked

Chuck





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