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Old 05-12-2018, 12:03 PM   #1
reikdas
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Getting Bumblebee to work on Debian Stretch


Distro - Debian Stretch
Graphics card - Nvidia Geforce GT 740m
Processor - i5 4200U

I recently booted Debian into my laptop again. Last time I tried to configure my Nvidia graphics driver and get Bumblebee working, I found myself having to reverse my way out of too many black screens when I couldn't boot into my OS anymore.

Are there any easy tutorials out there?
 
Old 05-13-2018, 08:49 PM   #2
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Do you want to use the proprietary drivers? If you just want it to work, you can just install primus, and with nothing else if you're kernel has a new enough version of nouveau to support it, it'll just work with the free drivers (I've had 4 different systems I've set up like this, although none had that card). I vastly prefer this way nowadays because you don't have to deal with the headaches of the proprietary drivers.
 
  


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