[HowTo] -current: problem Bumblebee 3.2 & nvidia driver

spiritual_fraud · 05-04-2013, 03:48 AM

Hi!
Here's quick tip to get nvidia working properly with bumblebee 3.2:

if you get this message:

Code:

$optirun -vv --debug glxspheres

Code:

[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)

[ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

Assuming that you blacklisted nouveau, and want the nvidia driver instead, simply delete busid.conf under

Code:

/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.d/busid.conf

and everything will be back to normal

Would be good to add this to the troubleshooting section here (again this problem seems to occur with bumblebee version 3.2):

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:har...nvidia_optimus

sycamorex · 05-04-2013, 04:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spiritual_fraud

Hi!
Here's quick tip to get nvidia working properly with bumblebee 3.2:

if you get this message:

Code:

$optirun -vv --debug glxspheres

Code:

[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)

[ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

Assuming that you blacklisted nouveau, and want the nvidia driver instead, simply delete busid.conf under

Code:

/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.d/busid.conf

and everything will be back to normal

Would be good to add this to the troubleshooting section here (again this problem seems to occur with bumblebee version 3.2):

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:har...nvidia_optimus

Thanks for the above tip. Feel free to add it to the slackdocs howto yourself. I'm sure people will find it useful. The info on registering with slackdocs is at the bottom of the main page