LMDE & Bumblebee
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:18 am
I'm running LMDE on a Dell Vostro 3750 with Bumblebee installed to support the Nvidia Optimus stuff. The only time I really want to use the Nvidia card is when dual booting into Windows. I'm a little confused though, as I thought Bumblebee's power management allowed you to do just that, i.e. use only the Intel card unless a program was specifically launched using optirun. However I find when randomly checking the status of the card here and there that often it's been turned on for reasons unclear to me:
I've been turning it off using
which appears to work fine. Does anyone know of a better 'permanent' solution to instruct Bumblebee never to turn on the card unless I explicitly ask for it?
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kristof@kristof ~ $ more /proc/acpi/bbswitch
0000:01:00.0 ON
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kristof@kristof ~ $ sudo rmmod nvidia
[sudo] password for kristof:
kristof@kristof ~ $ sudo tee /proc/acpi/bbswitch <<<OFF
OFF