Bumblebeed - No integrated video card found, quitting.

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Hi all. I have TW with KDE5. I already have read all about bumblebee to get it working but, I’m unable to achieve it. I have an Asus X570zd with AMD Radeon Vega 8 gfx and Nvidia GTX1050.

I have updated openSUSE with the latest stable kernel (I think) 5.2.11. I followed the official guide to install bumblebee but, for some reasone, it simple doesn’t start.

When I try with sudo bumblebeed start I get

[ERROR]No integrated video card found, quitting.

So, basically I can’t bumblebee working in my laptop.

This is my hwinfo:


nestor@neoacevedo:~> /usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfxcard
15: PCI 100.0: 0302 3D controller                               
  [Created at pci.386]
  Unique ID: VCu0.ULfTZ5jmRBA
  Parent ID: mnDB.fA+tdbAkMSD
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/0000:01:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "nVidia GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile]"
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x1c8d "GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile]"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
  SubDevice: pci 0x11d1 
  Revision: 0xa1
  Driver: "nvidia"
  Driver Modules: "nvidia"
  Memory Range: 0xf6000000-0xf6ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd1ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0xf000-0xf07f (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xf7000000-0xf707ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 53 (no events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00001C8Dsv00001043sd000011D1bc03sc02i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: nouveau is not active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau"
  Driver Info #1:
    Driver Status: nvidia_drm is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidia_drm"
  Driver Info #2:
    Driver Status: nvidia is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidia"
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #24 (PCI bridge)

29: PCI 400.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
  [Created at pci.386]
  Unique ID: YmUS.q5Ba9Q9Sfh7
  Parent ID: JZZT.A_VqgZKlSp2
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:04:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:04:00.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "ATI Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series]"
  Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc"
  Device: pci 0x15dd "Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series]"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
  SubDevice: pci 0x11d1 
  Revision: 0xc4
  Driver: "amdgpu"
  Driver Modules: "amdgpu"
  Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xefffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xf0000000-0xf01fffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0xc000-0xc0ff (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xf7500000-0xf757ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 60 (1027943 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d000015DDsv00001043sd000011D1bc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: amdgpu is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe amdgpu"
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #19 (PCI bridge)

Primary display adapter: #29

Inxi shows

nestor@neoacevedo:~> inxi -Gx
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 435.21 bus ID: 01:00.0 
           Device-2: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
           bus ID: 04:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.5 driver: amdgpu resolution: <xdpyinfo missing> 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.32.0 5.2.11-1-default LLVM 8.0.1) v: 4.5 Mesa 19.1.5 direct render: Yes

But I don’t know why the OpenGL renderer shows as AMD RAVEN. Anyone have achieved bumblebee works with AMD as iGPU and Nvidia as dGPU?

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Hi
I don’t think you need bumblebee, just vga switcheroo (part of the kernel and installable service) and run DRI_PRIME=1 <some app> to use the nvidia card…

https://01.org/linuxgraphics/gfx-docs/drm/gpu/vga-switcheroo.html

I’m guessing the AMD gpu is the integrated card, the nvidia is the discrete card.

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As far as I know switcheroo only works with the opensource driver (nouveau, radeon) and not the proprietary ones (nvidia, fglrx)

If you’ve followed the guide at https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Bumblebee
what does
systemctl status bumblebeed
give you?

You could try suse-prime as another option if you need the nvidia proprietary driver installed.

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Bumblebee is for Optimus hardware (Intel+NVIDIA). Don’t know what you use with AMD+NVIDIA in a notebook. Possible you can select in the BIOS but the hardware may use some sort of Optimus clone.

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There’s current mailing list thread started by someone who cannot make an AMD graphics+NVidia graphics combination work. Maybe it can’t be done? I’ve only ever tried dual AMD, Intel+AMD or Intel+NVidia.

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nestor@neoacevedo:~> systemctl status bumblebeed
● bumblebeed.service - Bumblebee C Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bumblebeed.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2019-09-15 15:13:51 -05; 5s ago
  Process: 3762 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/bumblebeed (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 3762 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

suse-prime is for Intel/Nvidia

Not at all true. Optimus hardware means Nvidia + another graphic. The guide puts as example Intel/Nvidia but it doesn’t show that Bumblebee is only for Intel/Nvidia.

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Yes, you’re right. AMD gpu is the iGPU. DRI_PRIME=1 runs under AMD integrated graphic and what I want is to run specific apps with the Nvidia dGPU, just like in Windows (or closest).

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Sorry, I tried to edit my last post but that option isn’t enabled.

I figured (without Bumblebee) to achieve some similar: ForoSUSE
In short words: when installing the privative Nvidia driver from the oficial repository, the installer doesn’t create the file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia.config so, once I created this file with the configuration provided by Nvidia in the post AMD Ryzen 7 + Geforce GTX 1660 Ti laptop ---> cannot get Nvidia to be used as primary graphics - Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums I got openSUSE had the correct 3D renderer, so after that I installed suse-prime and finally I got, not as I expected to get PRIME working. Now I have to check if this configuration can be recognized by Bumblebee and bbswitch.