How to start bumblebee daemon on boot?

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#1

Hi All,

I’ve followed Russian guide on http://forums.opensuse.org/forums/p-russian/dhydh-dh-dh-dhun-dh-dh-dh/1046-1077-1083-1077-1079-1086/473979-nvidia-optimus-opensuse.html to install bumblebee and nvidia drivers on my Dell L702x. I did use updated repos so I’ve installed bumblebee 3.0.1 from Index of /repositories/home:/Overman79/openSUSE_12.2 and latest nvidia drivers from Index of /repositories/home:/Bumblebee-Project:/nVidia:/latest/openSUSE_12.2

Bumblebee works just fine, except that every time I reboot I have to start Bumblebee Daeomon manualy by typing

sudo /usr/sbin/bumblebeed --daemon

The guide suggest that running

sudo /sbin/chkconfig bumblebeed on

will enable the service but all I get is “bumblebeed: unknown service”, if I run

sudo /sbin/chkconfig /usr/sbin/bumblebeed on

I get “/usr/sbin/bumblebeed: unknown service”.

My research points to two ways of enabling service on openSUSE:

1). use

insserv servicename

which I suspect is an old method and does nothing for me
2) user Yast–> System Services (Runlevel), but bumblebee is no on the list

There is a /usr/lib/systemd/system/bumblebeed.service file, which seem to define the service. file is owned by root with read access to everyone, but there is no script in /etc/init.d/

I’d appreciate your help in making bumblebeed start on boot

#2

Hi
You need to use systemd;


systemctl enable bumblebeed.service
systemctl start bumblebeed.service

The first command will create the link so it will start at boot. The
second one will start it if it isn’t running.

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#3

Thank you, that is exactly what I needed