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Nice article TommyC. I do not myself own a laptop with such dual graphics but I hope some of the site's audience do, and that they leave a comment.
I have one suggestion: in the beginning you explain the difference between “$” and “#” commands, but then afterwards most of the commands you show do not have any kind of prompt at all. This is confusing. You would do good to add an appropriate command prompt to every terminal command throughout the article.
Eric Hameleers 2012/10/01 13:47

Ah yeah, I had to go to class after I put that in. Will get to it later today. — TommyC 2012/10/01 15:56

Very useful article!!
I used it to setup the bumblebee system on my notebook with slackware64-current, but to build the nvidia-bumblebee package with the COMPAT32 option produce an only 32bit libvdpau_nvidia.so (in my case a link to libvdpau_nvidia.325.15). This produce a wrong ELF message error. Apart from this it works very fine.
Thank you
Matteo

As all updates I performed on the how-to were reverted… and a note then added to comment here… can you let me know which of them were wrong, misleading, etc or at least some reason for the reversion of all updates? Thanks :)
Nick Blizzard 2013/08/21 08:37

I've already discussed this with you over IRC when I made the revert, but to recap: I added more information and reorganized a lot of it to improve the quality of the article and decided to revert because it was easier to re-organize from the revert than changing from the previously made changes. Also, as previously shown, a lot of the points you made when you talked with me about it the second time were moot since I had addressed them in the article since the revert. — TommyC 2013/09/20 17:28
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