bumblebeed: Bumblebee daemon

DESCRIPTION

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: supresses 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 messsages 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

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