NAME¶

optirun - run programs on the discrete video card

SYNOPSIS¶

optirun [OPTION]... command [command options...]

DESCRIPTION¶

Run an application using the discrete video card.

--failsafe

run a program even if the nvidia card is unavailable

--no-failsafe

do not run a program if the nvidia card is unavailable

--no-xorg

do not start secondary X server (implies -b none)

-b, --bridge METHOD

acceleration/displaying bridge to use. Valid values are auto, virtualgl and primus. The --vgl-* options only make sense when using the virtualgl bridge, while the --primus-* options apply only when using the primus bridge. Additionally, value none is recognized, and its effect is to add paths to driver libraries to LD_LIBRARY_PATH (useful for nvidia-settings and CUDA applications)

-c, --vgl-compress METHOD

image compression or transport to use with VirtualGL. Valid values for METHOD are proxy, jpeg, rgb, xv and yuv. Changing this setting may affect performance, CPU usage and image quality

--vgl-options OPTS

a space-separated list of command options to be passed to vglrun. Useful for debugging virtualgl by passing options to it like +tr. These OPTS override the settings from optirun so be careful with setting it

--primus-ldpath PATH

a colon-separated list of paths which are searched for the primus libGL.so.1

-q, --quiet, --silent

suppresses all logging messages

-v, --verbose

increase the verbosity level of log messages. It can be specified up to two times (or five if --quiet is used)

--debug

show all logging messages by setting the verbosity level to the maximum

-C, --config FILE

retrieve settings for Bumblebee from FILE

-d, --display VDISPLAY

find the Bumblebee X server on VDISPLAY. Do not confuse this option with the DISPLAY environment variable. By default, PATH is queried from the daemon

-l, --ldpath PATH

libraries like libGL.so are searched in PATH (useful for the nvidia driver). By default, PATH is queried from the

-s, --socket FILENAME

use FILENAME for communication with the daemon

-h, --help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

EXAMPLES¶

optirun glxspheres

Runs the graphics demo supplied with Virtual GL.

optirun -c yuv glxspheres

Runs a program with the yuv transport method for better performance.

optirun firefox http://example.com

Run a program with arguments.

REPORTING BUGS¶

Report bugs on <http://Bumblebee-Project.org/issues>
Bumblebee homepage: <http://Bumblebee-Project.org/>

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright © 2011 The Bumblebee Project License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.