Nvidia Optimus

19 October 2016 in fedora

Fedora 24 version, closed source solution from managed NVidia repo

dnf -y --nogpgcheck install http://install.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/yum/itecs/public/bumblebee/fedora24/noarch/bumblebee-release-1.2-1.noarch.rpm
dnf install bumblebee-nvidia bbswitch-dkms VirtualGL primus kernel-devel

And test

optirun glxgears

I wanted to test optirun with Matlab, so I ran

optirun /usr/local/MATLAB/R2016a/bin/matlab -desktop

which resulted in a bunch of errors

MATLAB is selecting SOFTWARE OPENGL rendering.
version `CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by /usr/lib64/VirtualGL/librrfaker.so)
version `CXXABI_1.3.9' not found (required by /usr/lib64/VirtualGL/librrfaker.so)

This is caused by matlab loading an old version of libstdc++.so. A simple solution is to tell matlab where to look for the correct version of the lib.

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 optirun /usr/local/MATLAB/R2016a/bin/matlab -desktop

No errors this time!

» disp(opengl('data'))
                      Version: '4.5.0 NVIDIA 367.44'
                       Vendor: 'NVIDIA Corporation'
                     Renderer: 'Quadro K2000M/PCIe/SSE2'
               MaxTextureSize: 16384
                       Visual: 'Visual 0x20, (RGBA 32 bits (8 8 8 8), Z depth 16 bits, Hardware acceleration, Double buffer, Antialias 8 samples)'
                     Software: 0
         HardwareSupportLevel: 'full'
    SupportsGraphicsSmoothing: 1
SupportsDepthPeelTransparency: 1
   SupportsAlignVertexCenters: 1
                   Extensions: {327x1 cell}
           MaxFrameBufferSize: 16384

Screenshot: matlab quaternion filter