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Questions tagged [bumblebee]

Questions about bumblebee which is an implementation of Nvidia Optimus for Linux.

Bumblebee is an implementation of the Nvidia Optimus technology for Linux. It's meant to run certain application on a discrete GPU rather than the default integrated graphics, therefore saving power.

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Do not manage to activate HDMI on a laptop (that has optimus / bumblebee)

I am trying to use the HDMI output on a PC (HP ZBook) with Debian (stretch). I have configured Bumblebee, it works well (glxinfo and optirun glxinfo report the expected information, and I tested complicated GLSL shaders that also work as…
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Is it possible to run Steam games using optirun?

I am using Bumblebee on OpenSuse 13.1 on my Intel HD4600 / Nvidia GTX 860M combo. Steam games seems to lag a bit, when using primusrun. (vblank_mode=0 primusrun) Testing both primusrun and optirun with glxspheres, indicates that optirun is the…
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HDMI port doesn't work Nvidia/Intel Bumblebee Driver for Laptop with Manjaro Linux

Informations OS : Manjaro Linux 16.10 (Cinnamon Community Edition) $ cat /etc/*-release …
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Switchable graphics Intel + AMD Venus Pro

I'm using Manjaro Linux on my laptop with switchable graphic cards: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b) 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]…
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Alternatives for Bumblebee?

Last commit to Bumblebee was in 2013 and since then the project appears to be dead. Has an better alternative to Bumblebee (a fork perhaps) emerged? Have NVidia started supporting Optimus for Linux in their newer drivers (if yes, is it stable…
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Can't launch Steam games using optirun (Bumblebee)

I am using a Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 laptop with an Intel i7 CPU, an Intel HD4000 integrated GPU, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX660M discrete GPU. I have recently installed Debian testing (jessie) on it, previously using Ubuntu 14.10. To be able to use the…
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Primusrun/Optirun allegedly cannot locate/open config directory: "/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.d"

I have recently switched from open source drivers to nvidia, to bumblebee as instructed by ubuntuforums.org users to better use my two gpu's capabilities. It also so happens that it does not seem to work at all, I keep getting this error regardless…
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Optirun/Bumblbee: Cannot access secondary GPU

I use Arch Linux with the zen kernel. After doing system upgrades my dual GPU setup broke. I use bumblebee to handle dual GPUs. When I run optirun glxgears I get the following output: [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) No…
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What is the difference between optirun and primusrun (bumblebee)

I have installed the Lightworks video editor on Debian Jessie. For best performance it needs to run on a discrete video card with the proprietary driver. A Nvidia GTX 860M in my case. I have installed Bumblebee to switch between video cards as…
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Nvidia is loaded despite it being blacklisted

I've got a problem: my laptop loads the Nvidia driver despite it having been added to /etc/modprobe/blacklist.conf as blacklist nvidia, as well as in /etc/default/grub, and as rdblacklist nvidia in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX. This leads to the machine…
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Can't enable proprietary nVidia driver on debian 8 with bumblebee

I am running the Debian 8.0 64bit (Jessie, the stable release) on my HP laptop. I am having hard time in installing the proprietary nVidia driver of my graphic card 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT…
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Bumblebee does not switch off discrete graphics card after all programms shut down

after either primusrun or optirun and then quitting, the discrete nVidia graphics card is still running. optirun --status prints after everything is closed: Bumblebee status: Ready (3.2.1). X inactive. Discrete…
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Huge battery drain during suspend to ram - 12%/hour - nvidia card doesn't turn off

UPDATE: So I tracked down the issue. It seems the nvidia card powers up right before suspend. This is expected bbswitch behaviour: [ 4195.214014] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics But for some reason the card is not powered down during the…
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NVIDIA GTX 1650 not detected on Debian 10

#Solved It was hardware problem, my motherboard was broken. Fixed now. #Problem I can’t figure out how to install Nvidia driver on my laptop. (I’m being linux user for only 4-5 days, but I think I try hard enough.) paraduxos@ASUSDOGE:/$ neofetch …
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Broken Bumblebee on Debian Testing crashes with (EE) unw_get_proc_name failed: no unwind info found [-10]

I have an HP Spectre x360 with two graphics cards (Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 rev 02 and an NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce 940MX] rev a2). I installed Debian Testing on it and eventually realized that I needed to use primusrun to let…
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