On 24 May 2012 12:00, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Earl Ramirez <earlaramirez at gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 21 May 2012 14:46, Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk> wrote: > > > To the best of my knowledge Nvidia do not currently support Optimus on > >> Linux. > > >> Thanks, I believe that I am heading in the right direction, Any graphic > >> card will work for now as I only bought the laptop to play with KVM. I > keep > >> you guys posted if I get it working on CentOS 6. > > Regarding the lack of Optimus support for the Nvidia Linux driver, you > may want to try 'bumblebee' [1] available from ELRepo: > > http://elrepo.org/tiki/bumblebee > > bumblebee and the required packages are currently in the testing > repository. With enough feedback, they can be promoted to the main > repository. > > Akemi > > [1] http://bumblebee-project.org/ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thanks Akemi, I have installed Fedora and Ubuntu on a USB drive and I was able to get bumblebee to work, however I was not so successful when I tried it on CentOS 6.2. I used the packages from ELRepo and they were installed successfully but it did no work from the get go. Modify the config file and I will still boot up with the intel driver. -- Kind Regards Earl Ramirez