Optimus/Bumblebee - I'm in the boat now :-)

[Vincent Cheng]

Hi Andreas,

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just got a Lenovo T530 w/ Optimus sitting on my desk, so I'll need to
> take a look into bumblebee next week :-)
>
> In case there is some howto for getting Optimus running that I should
> check for it's usability, please let me know.

The usual way I test to make sure that bumblebee is working is simply:
$ optirun glxgears -info

If you see something like:
GL_RENDERER   = GeForce GT 630M/PCIe/SSE2
GL_VERSION    = 4.3.0 NVIDIA 325.15
GL_VENDOR     = NVIDIA Corporation

...then it's working. If mesa is being used, or if optirun crashes,
then something's wrong. ;)

There's also a wiki page on bumblebee [1], but most of it is
irrelevant or outdated now that bumblebee is packaged in Debian
proper.

Regards,
Vincent

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee