nvidia optimus card not working with bumblebee after driver update

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#1

After updating my nvidia drivers (for GeForce GT 540m) in OpenSuse 12.1, Gnome shell starts up in fallback mode and my graphics cards don’t work with bumblebee.

I’ve posted some relevant info here:

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daniel@linux-ychl:~> glxgears
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
glxgears: Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual.


daniel@linux-ychl:~> optirun glxgears
[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to load module "extmod" (module does not exist, 0)


[WARN]The Bumblebee server was not available.
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
glxgears: Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual.
#2

Looking at your bumblebee.conf I see the following:

  1. colon-separated path to the nvidia libraries

  2. LibraryPath=/usr/X11R6/lib/:/usr/X11R6/lib64/:/usr/lib/:/usr/lib64:/usr/lib64/vdpau:/usr/lib64/tls:/usr/lib/vdpau:usr/lib/tls

  3. comma-separated path of the directory containing nvidia_drv.so and the

  4. default Xorg modules path

  5. XorgModulePath=/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/updates/drivers,/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/updates/extensions
  6. XorgConfFile=/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia

The original file has this:

colon-separated path to the nvidia libraries

LibraryPath=/usr/lib64/nvidia:/usr/lib/nvidia

comma-separated path of the directory containing nvidia_drv.so and the

default Xorg modules path

XorgModulePath=/usr/lib64/nvidia/xorg/modules/updates,/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/updates,/usr/lib64/xorg/modules
XorgConfFile=/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia

I believe you should stick to the original, furthermore after every update of the Nvidia driver you’ll have to move some files, use those commands:

mkdir -p /usr/lib64/nvidia/xorg/modules/updates/extensions
mv /usr/X11R6/lib64/libGL* /usr/lib64/nvidia/
mv /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/updates/extensions/libglx* /usr/lib64/nvidia/xorg/modules/updates/extensions/
mkdir -p /usr/lib/nvidia
mv /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL* /usr/lib/nvidia

Probably you alraedy have the folders so you may skip the mkdir commands.
Besides that I don’t think you really need the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, it’s mostly confusing.

#3

Thank you, that did the trick!