Solved Bumblebee and HDMI, not a great mix?
#1
Hi,

I've been trying to sort this out for a little while now and while I'm used to x.org bumblebee is all new to me.
I got myself a laptop, hoping I could use it partially as a mediacentre.

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and I would like to run XBMC on the HDMI output while being able to use Ubuntu on the main screen.

Is this possible?

Regards.
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#2
It can't be done....Bumblebee, etc gives you OpenGL support (think games, Steam, etc) - but NO VDPAU (video hw acceleration).

Devs for Bumblebee seem less than interested in this either.
https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bum.../issues/36

I bought an ultrabook with i5 + GT635M....the GPU is useless for XBMC since no way to turn off discrete graphics. Thankfully, the Intel HW acceleration - VAAPI - seems to work well so running XBMC with that.

If I helped out pls give me a +

A bunch of XBMC instances, big-ass screen in the basement + a 20TB FreeBSD, ZFS server.
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#3
Oh.. That sucks!
Could you perhaps link me to a how-to concerning Intel HW acceleration? I'm pretty sure my mainboard supports it. When running Windows there's someting called Intel HW Acceleration in the activity field at least. :-P
Should I uninstall bumblebee, all together? Isn't the HDMI output connected to the Nvidia graphics only?

Cheers.
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#4
(2013-02-06, 09:20)pingaan Wrote: Isn't the HDMI output connected to the Nvidia graphics only?

Cheers.

Thats the case for my ausus 1215n. Maybe soon it will work

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=ne...px=MTI3NTM
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#5
Some good VAAPI info I found:

xbmc
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties pkg-config
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libva-intel-vaapi-driver i965-va-driver
sudo apt-get install xbmc

xbmc-vaapi http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=114368
If I helped out pls give me a +

A bunch of XBMC instances, big-ass screen in the basement + a 20TB FreeBSD, ZFS server.
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#6
Sorry for the delay, haven't tried it out yet but I will this weekend!

Cheers.
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#7
Followed the guide and it works great!
I bow to you for showing me the guide! \o/
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#8
@pingaan - good to hear.

Buyer beware for these Optimus laptops...I could've saved $100 for the non-GPU variant as well.
If I helped out pls give me a +

A bunch of XBMC instances, big-ass screen in the basement + a 20TB FreeBSD, ZFS server.
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#9
Looks like we may be getting some optimus love in kernel 3.9

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=ne...px=MTMwMjI
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