Bumblebee configuration in opensuse 13.2

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I am trying to configure Bumblebeed in opensuse 13.2. As reference, I followed the steps given
here. However, it does not work in my case. I get the following error :

purnendu@photon:~> optirun -vvv debug-bash
 3794.084373] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
 3794.084653] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.2.1 starting...
 3794.084661] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
 3794.084664] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
 3794.084667] [DEBUG] X display: :8
 3794.084670] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/lib64/nvidia:/usr/lib/nvidia
 3794.084673] [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
 3794.084676] [DEBUG] Accel/display bridge: auto
 3794.084678] [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy
 3794.084680] [DEBUG] VGLrun extra options: 
 3794.084682] [DEBUG] Primus LD Path: /usr/lib64/primus:/usr/lib/primus
 3794.084738] [DEBUG]Using auto-detected bridge virtualgl
 3794.087248] [INFO]Response: No - error: [XORG] (EE) 


 3794.087269] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) 


 3794.087272] [DEBUG]Socket closed.
 3794.087293] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
 3794.087296] [DEBUG]Killing all remaining processes.

Everything seems to be in place.


photon:~ # dmesg | grep NVIDIA 
    3.115230] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
    4.340444] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  343.22  Thu Sep 11 16:27:43 PDT 2014
 3095.002911] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  343.22  Thu Sep 11 16:27:43 PDT 2014


photon:~ # dmesg | grep bb
    3.026113] bbswitch: version 0.8
    3.026119] bbswitch: Found integrated VGA device 0000:00:02.0: \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0
    3.026125] bbswitch: Found discrete VGA device 0000:0a:00.0: \_SB_.PCI0.RP05.PXSX
    3.026237] bbswitch: detected an Optimus _DSM function
    3.026323] bbswitch: Succesfully loaded. Discrete card 0000:0a:00.0 is on
   32.315577] bbswitch: disabling discrete graphics
 3094.947669] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics

I have also changed BusID in /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia as the following output suggest

photon:~ # lspci |grep NVIDIA
0a:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 850M] (rev a2)

I have also cheked that changing load state option in /etc/modprobe.d/50-bbswitch.conf to -1, 1 or 0 does not have any effect.

Any idea, what is wrong here?

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Did you actually install the NVIDIA-bumblebee package??? DO NOT install the regular NVIDA driver you must have the special bumblebee package. If you did remove it.

That Web page seem to not be 100% right maybe

I suggest

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Bumblebee

3

Did you convert “0a:00.0” to decimal, “10:00.0”, lspci reports in hex but xorg use decimal.

4

Your link http://tinyurl.com/kxmt84r is quite outdated as is the Nvidia driver mentioned there (343.22).
The present one is 346.47.

Try the following tutorial, but if you change /etc/modprobe.d/50-bbswitch.conf as mentioned in issue 1) then run mkinitrd before rebooting.

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/505270-ultimate-tutorial-installing-Bumblebee-driver-for-SUSE

The problem in #2 of that thread has been solved by updated packages in the repository.

5

Yes, I have installed nvidia-bumblebeed package. I tried this link first without luck.

6

Yes. I did so.

7

I did a fresh re-install with v.346 drivers but no luck.

8

Are you sure this is an Optimus machine?? You have not mentioned the Intel GPU at all.

9

Finally it is almost fixed. My experience is almost similar as here :
https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/573

Here is the fix from this post


sudo cp /usr/sbin/bumblebeed{,.orig}


sudo sed -i 's/PCI:%02x:%02x:%o/PCI:%02d:%02d:%d/' /usr/sbin/bumblebeed

The only problem now is that the applications do not always close cleanly.