NAME

       optirun - run programs on the discrete video card

SYNOPSIS

       optirun [OPTION]... command [command options...]

DESCRIPTION

       Run an application using the discrete video card.

       --failsafe
              run a program even if the nvidia card is unavailable

       --no-failsafe
              do not run a program if the nvidia card is unavailable

       --no-xorg
              do not start secondary X server (implies -b none)

       -b, --bridge METHOD
              acceleration/displaying bridge to use. Valid values are auto, virtualgl and primus.
              The --vgl-* options only make sense when using  the  virtualgl  bridge,  while  the
              --primus-*  options  apply  only when using the primus bridge.  Additionally, value
              none is recognized, and  its  effect  is  to  add  paths  to  driver  libraries  to
              LD_LIBRARY_PATH (useful for nvidia-settings and CUDA applications)

       -c, --vgl-compress METHOD
              image  compression  or transport to use with VirtualGL. Valid values for METHOD are
              proxy, jpeg, rgb, xv and yuv. Changing this setting  may  affect  performance,  CPU
              usage and image quality

       --vgl-options OPTS
              a  space-separated  list  of  command  options  to  be passed to vglrun. Useful for
              debugging virtualgl by passing options to it like  +tr.  These  OPTS  override  the
              settings from optirun so be careful with setting it

       --primus-ldpath PATH
              a colon-separated list of paths which are searched for the primus libGL.so.1

       -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
              find the Bumblebee X server on VDISPLAY.  Do  not  confuse  this  option  with  the
              DISPLAY environment variable. By default, PATH is queried from the daemon

       -l, --ldpath PATH
              libraries  like  libGL.so  are  searched in PATH (useful for the nvidia driver). By
              default, PATH is queried from the

       -s, --socket FILENAME
              use FILENAME for communication with the daemon

       -h, --help
              display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit

EXAMPLES

       optirun glxspheres
              Runs the graphics demo supplied with Virtual GL.

       optirun -c yuv glxspheres
              Runs a program with the yuv transport method for better performance.

       optirun firefox http://example.com
              Run a program with arguments.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs on <http://Bumblebee-Project.org/issues>
       Bumblebee homepage: <http://Bumblebee-Project.org/>

COPYRIGHT

       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.