nVidia driver issue with bumblebee

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Hey all,

I’m having a weird issue with my nVidia driver not working at all with Bumblebee. I have an integrated Intel GPU, and after following all the steps and trying to run Steam, everything hangs at “Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1493162727)”. Also, following all the steps and and running “/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A2”, I still get this as an output:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0416] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:1108]
Kernel driver in use: i915

Which, I think would mean I’m still using the integrated graphics card instead of the nVidia one. I’m still really new to OpenSUSE, and outside of googling have no idea how to debug this issue, so any help would be appreciated!

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lspci should show the nvidia chip even if not running the driver. Could be a hardware problem look at lspci without the extra parameters and see if the NVIDIA chip shows. Also check the BIOS some systems allow the GPU’s to be switched off

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This will show the Graphiccards and drivers:

/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EiA3 'vga|3d|display'
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So, following what Sauerland said, this is the result of “/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EiA3 'vga|3d|display”:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0416] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:1108]
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915

01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 850M] [10de:1391] (rev ff)
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit Ethernet Controller [1969:e091] (rev 13)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:1107]

Would this mean the nVidia driver is being used? Could this entire thing be a dependency issue?

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No

I recommend you reread the bumblebee page

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Bumblebee

Bumblebee is used to switch GPU from Intel to NVIDIA. You must use the nvidia-bumblebee driver not the regular NVIDIA driver. If you installed the regular driver then uninstall it and follow instruction on the above page