HOWTO : nVidia CUDA Toolkit 4.0 on Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop. The CUDA Toolkit 4.0 is released on May 2011.
If you have nVidia display card that have several CUDAs on it, you will interested in this tutorial. This time, I would like to show you how to install CUDA Toolkit 4.0 on Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop. You will experience a more faster desktop after the installation of CUDA Toolkit 4.0. Meanwhile, if you installed SMPlayer, you can playback 1080p videos with the help of vdpau. Step 1 : Add the CUDA 4.0 PPA.sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aaron-haviland/cuda-4.0 Thanks for the developer of CUDA 4.0 PPA - Aaron Haviland of his contribution to make CUDA Toolkit to be installed easily. Step 2 : sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade. Bumblebee. Bumblebee aims to provide support for NVIDIA Optimus laptops for GNU/Linux distributions.
Using Bumblebee, you can use your NVIDIA card for rendering graphics which will be displayed using the Intel card. Bumblebee is officially supported by Ubuntu in 13.10 Saucy or newer. However, all releases are supported by the Bumblebee Project community from Ubuntu version 12.04 up to 13.10. Installation Basic Setup You need to open your terminal and enter the commands below. Install and usage - GitHub. Here you will find instructions in many ways to install, test and use Bumblebee.
Install The best and recommended way to install Bumblebee is through your distribution repositories. If not such packages exist, then you can still install Bumblebee manually from source. Install from packages ArchLinux AUR Package: ArchWiki: Chakra Chakra Wiki: Debian Debian Wiki: Ubuntu PPA: Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee - GitHub.