NAME¶
bumblebeed - bumblebee daemon
SYNOPSIS¶
bumblebeed [
OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION¶
Daemon for controlling the discrete nVidia video card on Optimus systems.
- -D, --daemon
- run daemonized (backgrounded). Implies
--use-syslog
- -x, --xconf FILE
- xorg.conf file to use
- --xconfdir DIR
- xorg.conf.d directory to use
- -g, --group GROUP
- allow GROUP to communicate with the daemon
- --driver DRIVER
- the driver to use for the nvidia card. Valid values are
nouveau and nvidia. This option also effects the driver section that will
be used from the configuration file
- -m, --module-path PATH
- ModulePath to use for Xorg (only useful for nvidia)
- -k, --driver-module NAME
- Name of kernel module to be loaded if different from the
driver
- --pm-method METHOD
- method to use for disabling the discrete video card, valid
values are auto, bbswitch, switcheroo and none. auto selects a sensible
method, bbswitch (kernel module) is available for nvidia and nouveau
drivers, switcheroo (vga_switcheroo) is usually for nouveau and radeon
drivers and none disables PM completely
- --pidfile FILE
- file in which the process ID is written. An empty value
disables cretion of a pidfile. Note that the file must not already
exist
- --use-syslog
- redirect all messages to syslog
- -q, --quiet, --silent
- supresses 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 messsages by setting the verbosity level
to the maximum
- -C, --config FILE
- retrieve settings for Bumblebee from FILE
- -d, --display VDISPLAY
- start the Bumblebee X server on VDISPLAY. Do not confuse
this option with the DISPLAY environment variable
- -l, --ldpath PATH
- libraries like nvidia_drv.so are searched in PATH (useful
for the nvidia driver)
- -s, --socket FILENAME
- use FILENAME for communication with the daemon
- -h, --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
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.
