.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.15. .TH BUMBLEBEED "1" "July 2020" "Bumblebee 3.2.1" "User Commands" .SH NAME bumblebeed \- bumblebee daemon .SH SYNOPSIS .B bumblebeed [\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... .SH DESCRIPTION Daemon for controlling the discrete nVidia video card on Optimus systems. .TP \fB\-D\fR, \fB\-\-daemon\fR run daemonized (backgrounded). Implies \fB\-\-use\-syslog\fR .TP \fB\-x\fR, \fB\-\-xconf\fR FILE xorg.conf file to use .TP \fB\-\-xconfdir\fR DIR xorg.conf.d directory to use .TP \fB\-g\fR, \fB\-\-group\fR GROUP allow GROUP to communicate with the daemon .TP \fB\-\-driver\fR 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 .TP \fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-module\-path\fR PATH ModulePath to use for Xorg (only useful for nvidia) .TP \fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-driver\-module\fR NAME Name of kernel module to be loaded if different from the driver .TP \fB\-\-pm\-method\fR 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 .TP \fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR supresses all logging messages .TP \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR increase the verbosity level of log messages. It can be specified up to two times (or five if \fB\-\-quiet\fR is used) .TP \fB\-\-debug\fR show all logging messsages by setting the verbosity level to the maximum .TP \fB\-C\fR, \fB\-\-config\fR FILE retrieve settings for Bumblebee from FILE .TP \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-display\fR VDISPLAY start the Bumblebee X server on VDISPLAY. Do not confuse this option with the DISPLAY environment variable .TP \fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-ldpath\fR PATH libraries like nvidia_drv.so are searched in PATH (useful for the nvidia driver) .TP \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-socket\fR FILENAME use FILENAME for communication with the daemon .TP \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR display this help and exit .TP \fB\-\-version\fR output version information and exit .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Report bugs on .br Bumblebee homepage: .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 2011 The Bumblebee Project License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . .br This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.