How do I know if bumblebee is really working?

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I have very poor steam game performance using primusrun %command%, as poor as when primusrun is not used. This is after the bug that caused steam unusable for three months has been fixed recently.

I checked the log and there is sth like this when the game is launched

Attempting to create OpenGL context: v3.3 (Core profile)...success.
Attempting to create OpenGL context: v3.3 (Core profile)...success.
DumpContextInfo: OpenGL vendor Intel Open Source Technology Center
DumpContextInfo: OpenGL renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile  
DumpContextInfo: Using OpenGL context version 3.3
DumpContextInfo: Context supports GLSL version 3.30

I doubt that nvidia is used at all since it shows intel with opengl?

But the command “primusrun glxspheres” works fine.

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I don’t have Optimus graphics hardware, so can only offer limited advice, but hopefully others who do use bumblebee can advise further. Anyway, to start with, what do the following report?

systemctl status bumblebeed

optirun --status

cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
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In particular, what does this report when you’ve started a steam game?

cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
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primusrun does not work for me either, instead, i use:

optirun -b primus %command%

on steam games an wine to play league of legends

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Independently, you can test with glxspheres (from virtualgl package)

glxspheres

and

optirun glxspheres

You should notice a large difference in the framerate.

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The following results were obtained when I have the steam game running with “primusrun %command%” and a “primusrun glxspheres” session running in the background. So it seems nvidia is not running at all?

systemctl status bumblebeed
**●** bumblebeed.service - Bumblebee C Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bumblebeed.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: **active (running)** since Sun 2016-10-23 12:18:05 CST; 38min ago
 Main PID: 1411 (bumblebeed)
   CGroup: /system.slice/bumblebeed.service
           └─1411 /usr/sbin/bumblebeed

Oct 23 12:18:05 LENSU systemd[1]: Started Bumblebee C Daemon.
Oct 23 12:18:09 LENSU.suse bumblebeed[1411]:    25.129322] [INFO]/usr/sbin/bumblebeed 3.2.1 started



optirun --status
Bumblebee status: Ready (3.2.1). X inactive. Discrete video card is off.



cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
0000:01:00.0 OFF
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Did you try reidelasroot’s suggestion?

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Yes but then I have only 10 fps, lower than my 20 fps now. Normally I should I have 60 fps in game.

It seems nvidia is not turned on coz it says “vendor disabled”?

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Please post the results of the following commands:

dmesg | grep nvidia
dmesg | grep NVRM
dmesg | grep bbswitch

Please also post the content of /etc/modprobe.d/50-bbswitch.conf
Though I am using prime-select now, I had had a problem with bumblebee, that looks similar to yours.

The Nvidia card got detected, but was not initialized correctly on boot up, because bbswitch turned its power off
before this could be done.

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Hi Brunolab, it seems the problem is with the new nvidia driver doesn’t compile with the current kernels. See my other post nvidia-bumblebee installation errors - Hardware - openSUSE Forums
and here: nvidia-367.35 DKMS build errors for a 4.7.0 kernel - Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums

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So I’m seeing

sudo 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 2016-10-30 22:27:05 GMT; 24s ago
  Process: 16390 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/bumblebeed (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 16390 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Oct 30 22:27:05 LENOVO systemd[1]: bumblebeed.service: Unit entered failed state.
Oct 30 22:27:05 LENOVO systemd[1]: bumblebeed.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

and

 sudo optirun --status
[11946.962811] [ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
[11946.962831] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?
[11946.962836] [WARN]The Bumblebee server was not available.
Segmentation fault

Where do I report that bumblebeed broke in Tumbleweed over a week ago, and is still broken?

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My apologies

The fix for this was to login in as root on tty1 (Alt Ctrl F1)
killall lightdm
systemctl stop bumblebeed
cd Nvidia
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.57.run

And re-building that fixed bumblebeed

My thought is that previously - and I may be wronf - that bumblebeed has been running, but the nvidia driver hasn’t been working properly. Previously I was getting about 25fps on optirun glxspheres, but it did run

this time I got errors with bumblebeed not running, check it’s installed or something similar.

hence trying to start the service via systemctl and then seeing the above mentioned errors

Is the default fix if you have glx / optirun errrors just to kill your DM, stop bumblebeed (if it’s even running, anyway) and rebuild the Nvidia drivers?

I suppose so…