Asus Zenbook Prime UX31A and UX32VD

[kaefert66014235]

Sorry, I was talking to you - could you please share the instructions for bumblebee on 12.10 ? I have tried it for a month ago without success ;(

hmmm, well its already about a month ago that I set this up, but I will try to find the place from where I took the instructions for it, wait a few minutes

UPDATE: here it is:
http://webent.altervista.org/2012/08...-ubuntu-12-04/

Though you can leave out this repository: ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates - it doesn't seem to be required

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hmmm, well its already about a month ago that I set this up, but I will try to find the place from where I took the instructions for it, wait a few minutes

UPDATE: here it is:
http://webent.altervista.org/2012/08...-ubuntu-12-04/

Though you can leave out this repository: ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates - it doesn't seem to be required

Ah, There's some extra steps in this guide compared to what I tried - thanks a bunch for the info

@wonghang - this might be the way for you to get all things working (newer xorg/intel, and bumblebee).

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Ah, There's some extra steps in this guide compared to what I tried - thanks a bunch for the info

@wonghang - this might be the way for you to get all things working (newer xorg/intel, and bumblebee).

Wow, it works

However speed is nothing to brag about:

sfs@sfs-laptop:~$ glxspheres 
Polygons in scene: 62464
Visual ID of window: 0xb8
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile 
60.158367 frames/sec - 67.136738 Mpixels/sec
60.065217 frames/sec - 67.032783 Mpixels/sec
^C
sfs@sfs-laptop:~$ optirun glxspheres 
Polygons in scene: 62464
Visual ID of window: 0x21
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GT 620M/PCIe/SSE2
84.314517 frames/sec - 94.095002 Mpixels/sec
87.914984 frames/sec - 98.113122 Mpixels/sec
^C[ 1254.324329] [WARN]Received Interrupt signal.

[kaefert66014235]

Wow, it works

However speed is nothing to brag about: ...

yep, I told you so.. It just uses huge amounts of power (10 Watts extra) but performance wise it doesn't improve that much compared to the intel graphics

update: you seem to get much better performance than I do, but maybe the reason is that I'm currently running with 2 extra monitors connected, total 3 monitors, aranged in 2 rows and 2 columns, therefore 4k virtual desktop size.

user@Machine:~$ glxspheres
Polygons in scene: 62464
Visual ID of window: 0xb8
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile 
30.763001 frames/sec - 34.331509 Mpixels/sec
34.325968 frames/sec - 38.307781 Mpixels/sec
31.801142 frames/sec - 35.490075 Mpixels/sec
32.488114 frames/sec - 36.256735 Mpixels/sec
35.933369 frames/sec - 40.101640 Mpixels/sec
38.615648 frames/sec - 43.095064 Mpixels/sec
39.105916 frames/sec - 43.642202 Mpixels/sec
38.113216 frames/sec - 42.534349 Mpixels/sec

user@Machine:~$ optirun glxspheres
Polygons in scene: 62464
Visual ID of window: 0x21
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GT 620M/PCIe/SSE2
46.954801 frames/sec - 52.401557 Mpixels/sec
54.079394 frames/sec - 60.352603 Mpixels/sec
54.493972 frames/sec - 60.815272 Mpixels/sec
59.928638 frames/sec - 66.880360 Mpixels/sec
60.984530 frames/sec - 68.058735 Mpixels/sec
59.748090 frames/sec - 66.678869 Mpixels/sec
58.746089 frames/sec - 65.560636 Mpixels/sec
60.489176 frames/sec - 67.505921 Mpixels/sec
62.087975 frames/sec - 69.290180 Mpixels/sec
61.089511 frames/sec - 68.175894 Mpixels/sec
59.929330 frames/sec - 66.881133 Mpixels/sec
59.922131 frames/sec - 66.873098 Mpixels/sec
63.072084 frames/sec - 70.388445 Mpixels/sec
59.808048 frames/sec - 66.745781 Mpixels/sec
61.613387 frames/sec - 68.760540 Mpixels/sec
user@Machine:~$

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yep, I told you so.. It just uses huge amounts of power (10 Watts extra) but performance wise it doesn't improve that much compared to the intel graphics

update: you seem to get much better performance than I do, but maybe the reason is that I'm currently running with 2 extra monitors connected, total 3 monitors, aranged in 2 rows and 2 columns, therefore 4k virtual desktop size.

user@Machine:~$ glxspheres
Polygons in scene: 62464
Visual ID of window: 0xb8
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile 
30.763001 frames/sec - 34.331509 Mpixels/sec
34.325968 frames/sec - 38.307781 Mpixels/sec
31.801142 frames/sec - 35.490075 Mpixels/sec
32.488114 frames/sec - 36.256735 Mpixels/sec
35.933369 frames/sec - 40.101640 Mpixels/sec
38.615648 frames/sec - 43.095064 Mpixels/sec
39.105916 frames/sec - 43.642202 Mpixels/sec
38.113216 frames/sec - 42.534349 Mpixels/sec

user@Machine:~$ optirun glxspheres
Polygons in scene: 62464
Visual ID of window: 0x21
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GT 620M/PCIe/SSE2
46.954801 frames/sec - 52.401557 Mpixels/sec
54.079394 frames/sec - 60.352603 Mpixels/sec
54.493972 frames/sec - 60.815272 Mpixels/sec
59.928638 frames/sec - 66.880360 Mpixels/sec
60.984530 frames/sec - 68.058735 Mpixels/sec
59.748090 frames/sec - 66.678869 Mpixels/sec
58.746089 frames/sec - 65.560636 Mpixels/sec
60.489176 frames/sec - 67.505921 Mpixels/sec
62.087975 frames/sec - 69.290180 Mpixels/sec
61.089511 frames/sec - 68.175894 Mpixels/sec
59.929330 frames/sec - 66.881133 Mpixels/sec
59.922131 frames/sec - 66.873098 Mpixels/sec
63.072084 frames/sec - 70.388445 Mpixels/sec
59.808048 frames/sec - 66.745781 Mpixels/sec
61.613387 frames/sec - 68.760540 Mpixels/sec
user@Machine:~$

But now it works, so I guess that will prove useful someday - thanks for your time, and maybe @wonghang will be able to work on CUDA now

[wonghang]

So I guess you're a little in limbo-land at the moment, with things improving but not really ready yet.

Thank you very much for your help. I will stay and wait for latest driver release.

However, I also discovered that if I run
gfxpayload=text
when booting the kernel. I will get blank screen even if I used fbdev for my xserver. Just an information

[wonghang]

I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 64bit Version, and for me the guide for installing bumblebee worked, however I rarely use it since the performance gain doesn't feel that big, but the power consumption increases by 10 Watts.

sorry...how do you measure the power consumption? there is a command / tool on linux for that?

[wonghang]

Ah, There's some extra steps in this guide compared to what I tried - thanks a bunch for the info

@wonghang - this might be the way for you to get all things working (newer xorg/intel, and bumblebee).

I got bumblebee working by using latest nvidia driver

NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  304.51  Tue Sep 18 17:36:24 PDT 2012

But xorg/intel failure suddenly two days ago.

[danieleds]

sorry...how do you measure the power consumption? there is a command / tool on linux for that?

if on 12.10, you can use powertop

[xicosm]

Hello!

I just received my Zenbook UX32A and wanted to ask if anyone replaced the standard drive with an ssd.

I'm considering either use the internal 24G ssd as the / install point for Ubuntu then the standard drive to be mounted as /home or replace the drive with a ssd.

If I do replace the drive with a ssd, could I use the internal ssd for the same purpouse windows does? (which I believe is just so you can sleep/wake up real quick).

Cheers