xps for linux users

[Rudra Banerjee]

I am sorry but what is GPU offloading? will it disable my NVIDIA permanently?     

 
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From: Branko Vukelic <bg.branko at gmail.com>
To: Rudra Banerjee <bnrj.rudra at yahoo.com>; Linux on Dell desktops and notebooks discussion <linux-desktops at dell.com>
Sent: Saturday, 18 June 2011 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: xps for linux users

Yes. I'm running Ubuntu Linux on Insipiron N5110 which has nVidia GT
525M w/ Optimus. There's a bumblebee project which has an installer
that sets up everything you need including a few commands (optirun32
and optirun64) that run programs w/ GPU offloading.

https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee

Should be noted that it's real offloading, and not GPU switching.

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Rudra Banerjee <bnrj.rudra at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear friends,
> my inspiron is outdated and I am really planning for a xps now. Only thing
> that is stopping me is the nvidia with optimus which is not supported in
> linux.
> Is there any solution for this?
> I will install fedora in the laptop.
>
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> Rudra
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