Packages for Ubuntu 12.10 about primus

[Azd325]

You can install it manual in your ubuntu!
FYI: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Hybrid-Grafikkarten/primus (German)

[Lekensteyn]

We'll soon add primus packages to bumblebee/testing (and later bumblebee/stable).

Compiling is not confusing, really. What is the difficult part of:

git clone git://github.com/amonakov/primus.git
cd primus
make
./primusrun foo

[LiamDawe]

The fact that those instructions are not on the readme...

[amonakov]

@Lekensteyn Well you know that make part is not that simple. The readme has full instructions for that part, though.

[LiamDawe]

Yes but i don't understand that as a plain user and not anykind of desktop developer or actual git user it isn't simple - especially the ubuntu bit thats not simple at all, thats my point where as a PPA package is :).

I appreciate the work, but i don't appreciate people thinking what's simple to them is simple to everyone - bear that in mind.

[LiamDawe]

I anyway and got this error;

liam@liam-laptop:~/primus$ LIBDIR=i386-linux-gnu CXX=g++\ -m32 make
mkdir -p i386-linux-gnu
g++ -m32 -Wall -g -DBUMBLEBEE_SOCKET='"/var/run/bumblebee.socket"' -DPRIMUS_SYNC='"0"' -DPRIMUS_VERBOSE='"1"' -DPRIMUS_DISPLAY='":8"' -DPRIMUS_LOAD_GLOBAL='"libglapi.so.0"' -DPRIMUS_libGLa='"/usr/lib32/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1"' -DPRIMUS_libGLd='"/usr/lib/$LIB/mesa/libGL.so.1"' -fvisibility=hidden -fPIC -shared -Wl,-Bsymbolic -o i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 libglfork.cpp -lX11 -lpthread -lrt
In file included from /usr/include/dlfcn.h:23:0,
from libglfork.cpp:1:
/usr/include/features.h:324:26: fatal error: bits/predefs.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1] Error 1

[Azd325]

Are you needing multilib support ?
Try this ... only one single make

git clone git://github.com/amonakov/primus.git
cd primus
make
./primusrun foo

[LiamDawe]

Im not sure if i do or not, if i don't have it won't that stop it being able to run 32bit games?

[zhurikhin]

I copied the packages from Precise to Quantal in my PPA - check if everything is OK with them. I'll do the same for newer version when they are ready.

[merlinblack]

You need the g++ multilib support. This confused me for a while as lots of google results on that error simply said install 'gcc-multilib', which I already had installed. However you also need 'g++-multilib' for the C++ side of things. So in short try this:

sudo apt-get install g++-multilib

If you don't already have gcc-multilib, I'm guessing the auto dependancy rules will install that too for you.

[LiamDawe]

After installing what was suggestion above i still get this:

liam@liam-laptop:~/primus$ LIBDIR=i386-linux-gnu CXX=g++\ -m32 make
mkdir -p i386-linux-gnu
g++ -m32 -Wall -g -DBUMBLEBEE_SOCKET='"/var/run/bumblebee.socket"' -DPRIMUS_SYNC='"0"' -DPRIMUS_VERBOSE='"1"' -DPRIMUS_DISPLAY='":8"' -DPRIMUS_LOAD_GLOBAL='"libglapi.so.0"' -DPRIMUS_libGLa='"/usr/lib32/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1"' -DPRIMUS_libGLd='"/usr/lib/$LIB/mesa/libGL.so.1"' -fvisibility=hidden -fPIC -shared -Wl,-Bsymbolic -o i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 libglfork.cpp -lX11 -lpthread -lrt
libglfork.cpp:833:2: warning: #warning Enabled workarounds for applications demanding more than promised by the OpenGL ABI [-Wcpp]
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1] Error 1

I will try the PPA and report back.

[LiamDawe]

Testing using the ppa and get this error when trying to use it:

libglfork.cpp:73: CapturedFns::CapturedFns(const char*): Assertion `lib && lib[0] == '/'' failed.

[amonakov]

This will happen if you invoke primusrun in the shell where you were trying to build primus from source. Simply use a different shell instead.

[LiamDawe]

Ah ha good one :)

Well i tested using Minecraft and just wow, optirun doesn't work right with it where as primusrun does gives me at least 15 more FPS.

Looks like the PPA works great, will continue testing and feedback here.

[LiamDawe]

Urban Terror - average of 12 more FPS with primusrun, just wow guys this is really much better than the current optirun!

[zhurikhin]

I just scheduled copying a new package version from Precise - try updating the packages to get some improvements.

[LiamDawe]

No update yet may take a while to filter through I guess.

[zhurikhin]

Should be up now.

[LiamDawe]

Well it seems to work far better than optirun, hope it does become the default.