[elrepo] Primus

[vychytraly .]

El7, yes I will be happy to test it! :-)

On Monday, April 24, 2017, Akemi Yagi <toracat at elrepo.org> wrote:
> 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
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