optirun(1) · carta

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: 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: 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/>

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