I'm having a lot of trouble getting Ubuntu 12.04 LTS running smoothly on my laptop. The computer has Nvidia Optimus, with an integrated HD4000 and a discrete Nvidia GTX 765M.
Initially I was just getting a black screen on startup; I installed Bumblebee and can now get to the desktop if I add the nomodeset
argument (nomodeset didn't work by itself without bumblebee). Now:
1) Unity doesn't start, and trying to open it manually gives me errors;
2) Additional Drivers says that the Nvidia graphics driver is activated but not in use;
3) Trying to run glxgears
or glxspheres
gives me this error:
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
4) Trying to run 'optirun glxgears` gives me this error:
[ 2028.461627] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0. Please
[ 2028.461673] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
I've spent all day reading through posts about problems with Optimus, but nothing so far has helped.