bumblebee problem

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Hello:

I am following the bumblebee guide from suse SDB page. I’ve got nvidia GT650+intel 4000 in my computer.
After installation, I found that my optirun cannot start up:

optirun -vv glxgears
240.104538] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
240.105020] [INFO]Configured driver: nvidia
240.105085] [ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
240.105095] [DEBUG]Socket closed.
240.105110] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?

/sbin/lspci | grep -i 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 Device 0fd5 (rev a1)

thank you very much
Albert

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There’s a better solution now, than the one from the SDB. Remove bumblebee, the nvidia stuff etc. Remove the bumblebee and nvidia repos.

Next, add this repo: Index of /repositories/home:/Overman79:/Laptop/openSUSE_12.3
Next, start the softwaremanager, and install:

  • bumblebee
  • dkms-bbswitch
  • dkms-nvidia
  • VirtualGL (+32bit)
  • primus (+32bit)
  • x11-video-nvidia (+32bit)

Add yourself (and other users) to the bumblebee group and the video group.

Done? Then reboot, login, open a terminal window and do


primusrun glxinfo | grep OpenGL
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Hello:

thanks for comments.
After install those package I restart the system, and I cannot enter my system now: it stacked after grub2 with errors:


firmware bug: ioapic 2 has no mapping iommu, interrupt remappin
g will be disabled
pci 0000:00:01: ASPM: could not configure common clock
i8042:: no controller found
doing fast boot
creating device nodes with udev
drm: : _ gen6_gt_force_wake_mt_get: error time out waiting for forcewake old ack to clear
i915 0000:00:02.0: invalid ROM contents.

thank you very much
best
Albert

4

BTW

I login the system in safemode, and I run command:

primusrun glxinfo | grep OpenGL

but it said:

primus: fatal: failed to connect to Bumblebee daemon: No such file or directory

thank you very much
Albert

5

Awefully sorry, I forgot one line, it should work with these two…


su -c 'systemctl enable bumblebeed.service'
su -c 'systemctl start bumblebeed.service'

But there’s a thing bothering me: the boot errors. Did you, by any means, try to install the NVIDIA driver from the NVIDIA repo?
Point is, that to have bumblebee working properly, one should boot normally, not through Failsafe

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hello:

thank you very much for further helps.
I installed the NVIDIA driver from the repo you provide and I didn’t add any repo except SUSE default ones… I run the two commands your provided, but it still the same error in the booting… My wifi doesn’t work, and I don’t know whether this error related to this issue…

Now I am in safemode, and I try to run optirun, it still failed with messages:

Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect…

thank you very much
best
Albert

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what’s more:

I am trying to run bumblee in safemode:

sudo /usr/sbin/bumblebeed

it said:

/home/albert% sudo /usr/sbin/bumblebeed
root’s password:
FATAL: Error inserting bbswitch (/lib/modules/3.7.10-1.1-desktop/kernel/drivers/acpi/bbswitch.ko): No such device
224.485744] [ERROR]Module bbswitch could not be loaded (timeout?)
224.485766] [WARN]No switching method available. The dedicated card will always be on.
224.486672] [ERROR]Module ‘nvdia’ is not found.