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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.

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  • Oh, ok, thanks. There's a whole host of similar questions about Optimus here, but the solutions didn't help me, and I'm hoping that my specific error messages might help solve the issue.
    – Joe
    Sep 12, 2013 at 0:04

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Got the same error:

Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual

But optirun glxgear works now. I've done it like this: How to install nvidia optimus driver?

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