[elrepo] Primus

[Akemi Yagi]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 4:41 PM, vychytraly . <vychytraly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello friends,
>
> I hope that Im not asking already answered question, but I could not find
> any information regarding this subject. Im using centos on my laptop with
> dual gpu, currently set up with great ElRepo packages using bumblebee and
> kmod-nvidia. (Thank you very much for maintaining it :) ) But today I was
> reading a bit about optirun and its options and I found out that it is able
> to run an app in 2 modes - via VirtualGL or Primus and many websites mention
> that Primus is newer method and have some benefits. (
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/669011/what-is-the-difference-between-optirun-and-primusrun
> ) Even optirun on my laptop has an option to run apps via primus and also
> the bumblebee config file is pointing to primus libraries (
> PrimusLibraryPath=/usr/lib/primus:/usr/lib32/primus ). But when I was
> looking for these folders I found out that they dont exist, so I think that
> I dont have primus installed. So thats why I just wanted to ask only out of
> curiosity (VirtualGL works really good for me :) ) why kmod-nvidia packages
> do not include primus? Or should it be installed separately? (How? Or is it
> a separate package, not a part of a driver?)  Would not primus bring some
> performance benefits?
>
> Thank you very much and have a nice day :)
> Ondro

Which OS are you using, EL6 or EL7? Will you be able to test if we
provide the rpm package?

Akemi