Need help installing bumblebee

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Hi, I am new to linux and just switched over from kubuntu after a friend suggested I should try opensuse. I tried installing bumblebee from various guides and have had no success. I read https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/484188-setup-bumblebee-primus-opensuse-12-3-a.html and was not sure on how to go about installing bumblebee. I would also like to get this working with 32bit apps.

New installation of opensuse 12.3 KDE 64bit
System specs: Gigabyte u2442 i5-3210m 8GB Nvidia 640M

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It is as clear as daylight in this post
https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/484188-setup-bumblebee-primus-opensuse-12-3-a.html#post2534451
Also check
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Bumblebee

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Newbie user guide
https://news.opensuse.org/2013/03/22/opensuse-for-new-geekos/

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This one is quite old. In short, this is it:

Use Yast - Software - Software repositories - Add - URL, and add this repo:


[Index of /repositories/home:/Overman79:/Laptop/openSUSE_12.3](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Overman79:/Laptop/openSUSE_12.3/)

Trust the key when prompted for

Now start Yast - Software - Software management, and check the following packages for install, packagenames between brackets only on 64bit systems:

VirtualGL
(VirtualGL-32bit)
bumblebee
dkms
dkms-bbswitch
dkms-nvidia
libturbojpgeg
(liturbojpeg-32bit)
primus
(primus-32bit)
x11-video-nvidia
(x11-video-nvidia-32bit)

When done, reboot. Once back in the desktop environment, open a terminal and run


primusrun glxinfo | grep OpenGL
optirun glxinfo | grep OpenGL

to verify things work. The output should show the NVIDIA card is being used by the commands.

There’s a couple of things one may check in case of trouble:

  • Check whether bumblebee is running

systemctl status bumblebeed.service

if it doesn’t run yet, do


su -c 'systemctl restart bumblebeed.service'
  • User may need to be member of the “video” group
  • User may have to create a “bumblebee” group and add him/herself to it
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When running


primusrun glxinfo | grep OpenGL
optirun glxinfo | grep OpenGL

I get 141.999292] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) [drm] KMS not enabled

141.999322] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

What Xorg files do I need to install/enable?

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None. What you need to do is this:

  • Start Yast - System - Sysconfig editor
  • Search for KMS, go there
  • Set “NO_KMS_IN_INITRD” to “no”
    Reboot, and try the last commands again.

Some background: in the latest drivers delivered by NVIDIA, they have done what a lot of us would never expect: the driver now needs kernel mode setting. So far the drivers wouldn’t work with KMS, now (at least in an Optimus/bumblebee configuration) the require it.

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Interesting. I wasn’t aware of that development.

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I did exactly that and now I am getting another error

99.240368] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to load module “nvidia” (module does not exist, 0)

99.240401] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

Am I doing something wrong or was something not installed correctly? Anyway thanks for the help! :slight_smile: