[elrepo] Primus

[Akemi Yagi]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:24 AM, vychytraly . <vychytraly at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

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

I found a prius package built for "centos" here:

http://install.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/yum/itecs/public/bumblebee/rhel7/x86_64/

The latest is primus-1.1.03282015-4.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm .

Perhaps you can give it a try?

Akemi