Leap + Bumblebee

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HI,

On Asus laptop with a Nvidia 960m GTX I am trying to get bumblebee to work. Based on the instructions from https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Bumblebee

I added the repository from

https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=X11%3ABumblebee&package=nvidia-bumblebee

Then ran


zypper in nvidia-bumblebee
systemctl enable dkms
zypper in nvidia-bumblebee-32bit

Rebooted.

Tried to find optirun, it doesn’t appear to be installed

Looking at systemctl -a, and bumblebee is not listed.

Would therefore seem the install didn’t complete. The system appears to still be using Nouveau.

Any thoughts please?

Thanks

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You have to install some more packages and add the right repository:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Bumblebee/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/

You might take a look at these threads:

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/505270-ultimate-tutorial-installing-Bumblebee-driver-for-SUSE

and

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/510739-LEAP-42-1-optirun-nvidia-poor-performance
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THanks - tried that. No joy. I will leave it for now.

4

Same setup here, followed exactly that guide (with the “Leap42.1” version of repos and a final ‘dracut --host-only --force’ just for safety) and everything ok…:slight_smile:

But be sure to configure your Yast2-Software (or whatever you are using) to “Install recommended packages”, otherwise you miss some essential packages that are not explicitly mentioned in the guide.

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Thanks - I gave it another try given your experience. I now have bumblebee installed and started, but it doesn’t appear to be running with the Nvidia drivers?! Which I did install.

:
systemctl status bumblebeed
bumblebeed.service - Bumblebee C Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bumblebeed.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2015-11-19 18:09:42 GMT; 47s ago
Main PID: 1528 (bumblebeed)
CGroup: /system.slice/bumblebeed.service
└─1528 /usr/sbin/bumblebeed

Yet if I run nvidia-settings

ERROR: libnvidia-gtk3.so.352.55: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libnvidia-gtk3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libnvidia-gtk2.so.352.55: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libnvidia-gtk2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

ERROR: A problem occured when loading the GUI library. Please check your installation and library path. You may need to
specify this library when calling nvidia-settings. Please run nvidia-settings --help for usage information.

Any ideas please? I’m running KDE.

Thank you

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Further info


ben@Gibson:~$ optirun nvidia-smi
Thu Nov 19 18:28:17 2015       
+------------------------------------------------------+                       
| NVIDIA-SMI 352.55     Driver Version: 352.55         |                       
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 960M    Off  | 0000:01:00.0     Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   42C    P0    N/A /  N/A |     12MiB /  2047MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID  Type  Process name                               Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0      2293    G   Xorg                                             4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
ben@Gibson:~$ optirun --status
Bumblebee status: Ready (3.2.1). X inactive. Discrete video card is off.
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nvidia-settings should be directed at Xserver :8 and should load the Nvidia GL libraries to work as intended.
Start it with:


optirun -b none nvidia-settings -c :8

You may edit the desktop launcher accordingly by issuing:


sudo nano /usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop

and making sure that line 6 reads:


Exec=optirun -b none /usr/bin/nvidia-settings -c :8
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The first line worked fine - thank you!!