NVIDIA Optimus
This page explains the procedure to install the NVIDIA proprietary driver together with Bumblebee / bbswitch, which allows the use of NVIDIA's Optimus technology, in recent versions of openSUSE. Situation There is a laptop with Optimus technology that uses a separate NVIDIA card and another integrated low power (usually Intel). You want to run programs using the independent card but you do not want to have it activated all the time to reduce the power consumption. You may also want to completely disable the independent card in laptops that do not offer this option in your BIOS. Procedure Preparation Although the process is generally reliable, problems may appear after the installation and configuration process. Since openSUSE 13.2 uses the default Btrfs file system for the root partition, it is convenient to create a snapshot to have it as a recovery point if necessary. To do this, the following command is executed in a console: snapper create -d BeforeTheBumblebee Be...