Bumblebee installation with proprietary driver fails

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#1

Dear Community,

yesterday I installed a fresh Leap 42.1 on my Laptop, an ASUS N61Jv with Optimus hybrid graphics card and a Geforce 325m chip.

I wanted to get the discrete card to work using bumblebee. I followed the instructions of https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Bumblebee but I used https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:NickLion:nv/nvidia-bumblebee instead,
since I need driver version 340.96 for my graphics chip according to the NVIDIA homepage.

Unfortunately the installation failed with output

“cannot stat <some_path>/libnvidia-gtk3.so”

and in the make.log:

‘no rule for target “modules”’

As a result the nvidia modules did not show up when I did

hwinfo --gfxcard

and expectantly testing with

optirun glxspheres

failed with the
[XORG] (EE) intel(0): [drm] failed to set drm interface version: Permission denied

message.

I guess the package is a bit broken, so is there any alternative for installing bumblebee with the nvidia driver on my system?

An aside: I wanted to install bosim’s suse-prime package, but this is only provided for Geforce 400 and later cards. Would be cool to have this also for earlier cards such as mine.

Cheers

#2

Hi, the Nvidia package you installed is built by a single user that might have specific configurations, try to add the official Bumblebee repo:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Bumblebee-Project:/nVidia:/340.96/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/
and install the x11-video-nvidia-340.96-66.1.x86_64.rpm package from there.
Make sure to have “Installed Recommended packages” set, so that all dependencies are installed as well.
Be aware that building the needed kernel modules might take a few minutes, so don’t panic if you get a longer boot with a “black screen” on the first reboot.

#3

Thx for the reply and your hint. -> I’ll give it a try.

I also found:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:Bumblebee-Project:nVidia:340.96/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:Bumblebee-Project:nVidia:340.96.repo
Wouldn’t that also contain the “official” packages?

Cheers

#4

That is the repo for Tumbleweed, but apparently you are running Leap 42.1?

#5

Forget the previous post. I also did not see (before posting) that you were already pointing me to the 340.96 repo for Leap. I assumed that you were pointing to the bumblebee repo containing the current nvidia driver. Sry :wink:

But I have good news: The installation worked perfectly and GLX Spheres is now running… Thank you! → Issue resolved.

One minor thing: During startup it complained that it could not load all modules and

systemclt status systemd-modules-load.service

reported:

~] λ systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service
systemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service; static)
Active: active (exited) since Thu 2016-06-30 12:01:48 CEST; 9min ago
Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)
man:modules-load.d(5)
Process: 427 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 427 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-modules-load.service

Jun 30 12:01:48 Rechensklave systemd-modules-load[427]: Inserted module ‘bbswitch’
Jun 30 12:01:48 Rechensklave systemd[1]: Started Load Kernel Modules.

Is there a problem?

Cheers

#6

Did you remove the normal NVIDIA driver before installing the bumblebee version? That can leave stuff behind if not removed.

#7

I did not even install the normal driver. It seems that I just picked the wrong package.

But there is a followup problem of this with primusrun not working:

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/518692-primusrun-not-working-after-flawless-bumblebee-installation

I also noticed that skype now requires optirun to work. I think it does not look the the driver of the intel chip. Any idea how can reconfigure this?

Cheers