Can t make bumblebee-nvidia work in debian stretch

moctavianro · 05-03-2018, 06:57 AM

Can t make bumblebee-nvidia work in debian stretch. I was able to make it work in older version. After installing it xorg can t start, i get the init black screen flickering, need to wait 2 minutes for it to stop and access the terminal. If running nvidia-detect i get the Message that no nvidia card is detected. If run lspci | grep "VGA|3D" i can see the card there. My machine ia a laptop Asus rog g750jz with i7 4th generation and nvidia 880. I alrredy tried a lot of tutorials, including https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee. Nothing worked...please help

AwesomeMachine · 05-03-2018, 02:00 PM

You first need to remove all nvidia stuff.

Code:

$ apt-get remove nvidia*

Then, find out which nvidia driver package you need from the Debian repos. Install the correct nvidia driver and it should bring in everything you need. You also need to blacklist the nouveau open-source nvidia driver so it doesn't load.

Then install bumblebee after you're sure you've installed the correct nvidia driver for your gpu. Debian frequently installs the wrong version of the nvidia driver to discourage its use. After that's all done, bumblebee should work.

moctavianro · 05-03-2018, 02:27 PM

Thats an windows user answer