Bumblebee on OpenSUSE 13.2 not working

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Hi.

A few days ago I made a fresh install of OpenSUSE 13.2 on my Acer Aspire V3-571G, all updates are applied.
I have kept the /home partition from the previous 12.3 install.

I have followed this when installing Bumblebee:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Bumblebee

The laptop has a sticker with “NVIDIA OPTIMUS” on it and lspci list two VGA cards:

jpt@linux-6arc:~/Documents> /sbin/lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 730M] (rev a1)
jpt@linux-6arc:~/Documents>

When trying to run anything with optirun I get this:

jpt@linux-6arc:~/Documents> optirun --status
Bumblebee status: Ready (3.2.1). X inactive. Discrete video card is off.

jpt@linux-6arc:~/Documents> cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch 
0000:01:00.0 OFF
jpt@linux-6arc:~/Documents> glxspheres 
Polygons in scene: 62464
Visual ID of window: 0x20
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile 
61.237496 frames/sec - 68.341046 Mpixels/sec
59.980130 frames/sec - 66.937825 Mpixels/sec
^C
jpt@linux-6arc:~/Documents> optirun glxspheres 
 1240.877620] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver

 1240.877674] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
jpt@linux-6arc:~/Documents> cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch 
0000:01:00.0 ON
jpt@linux-6arc:~/Documents> optirun --status
Bumblebee status: Error (3.2.1): Could not load GPU driver

jpt@linux-6arc:~/Documents>

If I install only nvidia-bumblebee I can successfully run modprobe nvidia.

If I try to do this after installing bumblebee with all dependencies I get this error message:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ‘nvidia’: No such device

It looks like others have had success with this recently as in this thread:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/504748-Should-I-be-using-Nvidia-Bumblebee-or-not/page3

Does anyone have an idea why this is not working?

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  1. You made fresh install of bumblebee right? Was there any nvidia driver installated previously
  2. Did you mkinitrd

Also, post the results for following

dmesg | grep nvidia

dmesg | grep NVRM

dmesg | grep bbswitch

cat /etc/modprobe.d/50-bbswitch.conf

Go through the thread https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/504773-Cannot-install-nvidia-bumblebee-Proxy-Error

PS - We both have same laptops

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No there was no nvidia driver installed previously, and I did mkinitrd.

I followed the thread you quoted and did the following:

Updated /etc/modprobe.d/50-bbswitch.conf :


options bbswitch load_state=1 unload_state=1

Did:


mkinitrd

Rebooted the system.

And now it is working!

Thank you for your help!

I have used OpenSUSE for many years, and found solutions to most of the problems by my self, but this one I had more or less given up on.