FAQ

Work in progress.

Developers: please add all you want and consider relevant, please use references whenever possible.

What is Bumblebee?

Bumblebee is a effort to make [Nvidia Optimus][1] enabled laptops work in GNU/Linux systems. Such feature involves two graphics cards with two different power consumption profiles plugged in a layered way sharing a single framebuffer. [1]: http://www.nvidia.com/object/optimus_technology.html

Where the name comes from?

How it works?

I have a laptop with Nvidia card and an integrated graphics card, how can Bumblebee help me?

How to know if my graphics card is supported?

What can Bumblebee do for me?

Ok, I'm sold, how can I install Bumblebee?

I didn't like it, how can I uninstall Bumblebee?