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| ====== Bumblebee for Nvidia Optimus Cards ====== | ====== Bumblebee for Nvidia Optimus Cards ====== | ||
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| - | Check your hardware: | + | <WRAP center round important 100%> |
| + | Please note that, up until now, I **wasn't able to get a working configuration of LMDE2 with Bumblebee** on my current hardware (Clevo W150HR) m( | ||
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| + | If you intend to install Bumblebee on your system, I would recommend **having a USB Startup Key with LMDE2 as a testing platform** on which to try and make it work for your system. This way, you'll avoid messing up your entire system in case it doesn't work in the end... | ||
| + | </WRAP> | ||
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| + | ===== Check your hardware ===== | ||
| <code> | <code> | ||
| > lspci | grep VGA | > lspci | grep VGA | ||
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| After reading this article, we'll try and install **Bumblebee** on our system. This [[https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee#Installation|Debian wiki page]] tells us how to complete the installation. | After reading this article, we'll try and install **Bumblebee** on our system. This [[https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee#Installation|Debian wiki page]] tells us how to complete the installation. | ||
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| + | ===== Install Bumblebee and Primus ===== | ||
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| + | In LMDE2 (Debian 8 Jessie): | ||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | > sudo apt-get install bumblebee primus | ||
| + | </code> | ||
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| + | You might need to add your user to the bumblebee group (normally it's done at install time if your user has sudo rights): | ||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | > sudo adduser $USER bumblebee | ||
| + | </code> | ||
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| + | You can now use //**optirun**// or, better, //**primusrun**// to launch applications that will use the NVIDIA GPU: | ||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | > primusrun vsxu_player | ||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | |||
| + | On my Clevo W150HR (above outputs), an error was reported when trying to use optirun or primusrun. Examination of the //**/var/log/Xorg.0.log**// and //**/var/log/Xorg.8.log**// files revealed an apparently "classic" error: | ||
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| + | > (EE) /dev/dri/card1: failed to set DRM interface version 1.4: Permission denied | ||
| + | > (EE) /dev/dri/card0: failed to set DRM interface version 1.4: Permission denied | ||
| + | > (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] failed to set drm interface version. | ||
| + | > (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] error opening the drm | ||
| + | > (EE) NOUVEAU(0): 892: | ||
| + | > (II) UnloadModule: "nouveau" | ||
| + | > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. | ||
| + | > (EE) | ||
| + | > Fatal server error: | ||
| + | > (EE) no screens found(EE) | ||
| + | > (EE) | ||
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| + | There are various threads like [[https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/652|this one (which seems to be the most recently updated)]], or [[https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/580|this one also on the GitHub space of Bumblebee]] or yet [[https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756522|another one from the Debian bug report log]]... | ||
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| + | Although it isn't guaranteed to work, the only "fix" that seems to have a chance to help is adding the following lines to the xorg.conf file. Fist identify the used config file, then edit it: | ||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | > cat /var/log/Xorg.8.log | grep "Using config file" | ||
| + | [ 1877.975] (++) Using config file: "/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nouveau" | ||
| + | |||
| + | > sudo nano /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nouveau | ||
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| + | Section "ServerLayout" | ||
| + | Identifier "Layout0" | ||
| + | Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" | ||
| + | Option "AutoAddGPU" "false" | ||
| + | EndSection | ||
| + | |||
| + | Section "Device" | ||
| + | Identifier "DiscreteNvidia" | ||
| + | Driver "nouveau" | ||
| + | |||
| + | # If the X server does not automatically detect your VGA device, | ||
| + | # you can manually set it here. | ||
| + | # To get the BusID prop, run `lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'` and input the data | ||
| + | # as you see in the commented example. | ||
| + | # This Setting is needed on Ubuntu 13.04. | ||
| + | # BusID "PCI:01:00:0" | ||
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| + | EndSection | ||
| + | |||
| + | Section "Screen" | ||
| + | Identifier "Default Screen" | ||
| + | Device "DiscreteNvidia" | ||
| + | EndSection | ||
| + | </code> | ||
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