bumblebeed - bumblebee daemon
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
- suppresses 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 messages 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
Report bugs on <http://Bumblebee-Project.org/issues>
Bumblebee homepage: <http://Bumblebee-Project.org/>
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.