I installed Bumblebee following the instructions on the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee#Installation
It is working! I checked out glxspheres
and then optirun glxspheres
, and I got 55fps and 133fps respectively. Hot.
I also got the "Unity 3D" Ubuntu interface working after I installed Bumblebee. However, here's the output of /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
:
adityamenon@jaguar:~$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 9.0.3 Not software rendered: yes Not blacklisted: yes GLX fbconfig: yes GLX texture from pixmap: yes GL npot or rect textures: yes GL vertex program: yes GL fragment program: yes GL vertex buffer object: yes GL framebuffer object: yes GL version is 1.4+: yes Unity 3D supported: yes
So it appears I'm still on the Intel card for my 3D-effects interface. I'm sure running on the nVidia card instead would make the experience faster... how do I do that?
This is my laptop: http://www.samsung.com/in/support/model/NP300V5A-S0CIN-techspecs
Pertinent specs being:
Processor Intel® Core™ i7 Processor2670QM (2.20GHz, 6MB L3 Cache) Graphic Processor NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 520MX Graphics, Optimus™ technology Main Chipset Intel HM65
EDIT: Just read this question from the sidebar: Can I set my Optimus Nvidia card to run Unity3D with bumblebee?
I didn't think of optirun /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
... so I did that, and here's the output:
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 520MX/PCIe/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.88 Not software rendered: yes Not blacklisted: yes GLX fbconfig: yes GLX texture from pixmap: no GL npot or rect textures: yes GL vertex program: yes GL fragment program: yes GL vertex buffer object: yes GL framebuffer object: yes GL version is 1.4+: yes Unity 3D supported: no
So unfortunately, it says Unity 3D isn't supported on this... the answers on the other question only advise selling this laptop and buying a new one with discrete graphics :D Is there any other way?
Install nvidia-prime, try: