Questions tagged [bumblebee]
Bumblebee is a software solution trying to support nVidia Optimus laptops
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Problems with package manager after uninstalling bumblebee
I uninstalled Bumblebee, but now my video card is not working properly. I tried to update its video driver, but now I just got the message
An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the ...
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How to make Bumblebee work with HP Pavilion DV6T-7000 Quad Edition with Intel HD 4000 and Nvidia GeForce GT 650M 2GB?
I just recently bought a HP DV6T-7000 Quad Edition. It has an Intel HD 4000 and a Nvidia GeForce GT 650M 2GB with Optimus. I read that I could use bumblebee to make optimus work, so I installed it. I ...
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I keep getting a syntax error when trying to install Bumblebee
I'm getting a syntax error when trying to install Bumblebee (Hardware graphics switcher). I'm running Ubuntu 11.04. My computer is a Sony Vaio Z (VPCZ122Gx). The github page is here: https://github....
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Unable to use nvidia gpu with optimus on ubuntu 16.04
I'm having a dell inspiron 7567 in which im not able to use the nvidia gpu (Geforce GTX 1050). At first i only installed the nvidia driver and tried signing the MOK by following the steps from
https:/...
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Optirun Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] Invalid argument for -config
I am experiencing a weird issue with bumblebee. I have installed bumblebee-nvidia with nvidia-364. Bumblebeed starts, but when I try to connect with optirun, optirun reports:
[ 1225.971452] [ERROR]...
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Bumblebee on Asus Zenbook UX303LB
About a week ago, I bought a new laptop (Asus Zenbook UX303LB). I immediately threw out the included Windows installation and installed Ubuntu 15.04 (later upgraded to 15.10, and also reinstalled at ...
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Does bumblebee configure your xserver to use the dedicated GPU?
Just wandered if there is a way to use optirun with the desktop environment.
Anyone know if it works?
Edit:
I have been reading a lot about bumblebee and still have not found any conformation on ...
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Distorted graphics problem
My laptop is Asus N53S. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Installed bumblebee to use nvidia optimus (Nvidia Geforce GT540M) - animations, performance in games are excellent.
But sometimes when I'm working ...
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Should I go with a VMWare install or a Wubi install?
First off, no, I'm not going to do the standard partitioning install. I've gone through a few hours of dealing with boot managers that wouldn't install properly and accidentally temporarily "breaking" ...
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lightdm - Job failed to start (xorg problem?!) / bumblebee/cuda related?
Please work through my wall of text, need help!! Thank you!
Booting up my laptop this morning, I encountered the following problem:
Boot to black screen with no responsiveness, couldn't even get to ...
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How do I install bumblebee and CUDA?
I'm trying to get CUDA running on my Dell Precision M6700 laptop.
I use Ubuntu 12.04 for the moment but I can switch to a newer version if it facilitates the installation of CUDA.
I just want CUDA to ...
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Bumblebee on 12.04.3: Cannot access secondary GPU
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Title says it: trying to get Bumblebee to work.
System specs: MSI GE70 w/ Nvidia GeForce 765m
Drivers installed:
morphheus@nyx:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep nvidia
bumblebee-nvidia ...
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Bumblebee issue with 13.04
Bumblebee cannot access my GPU
optirun -vv glxspheres
[ 1731.443943] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 1731.445149] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.1 starting...
[ 1731.445191] [DEBUG]...
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Nvidia Graphic installed?
I have an Optimus graphic card and had the blank screen issue after installing Nvidia drivers.
I think I installed Bumblebee drivers correctly and everything is running correctly. But, in the ...
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How to make Unity 3D work with Bumblebee using the Intel chipset
I have a Sony VAIO S laptop with the dreaded Optimus and finally managed to get Bumblebee to work fully on Ubuntu 12.04 so that I can utilize both the hardware acceleration of the Intel chipset as ...
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Run a program with optirun by default (Bumblebee)
I'm trying to run Minecraft on my GeForce card (with Optimus, bumblebee is installed), but without having to type the command in the console every time I want to open it.
How can I configure ...
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nvidia-smi works, but glxinfo show OpenGL uses Intel graphics card; Ubuntu 18.04
I want to play a game using the discrete graphics on my notebook. I don't care about the Intel graphic card - I just want to use exclusively NVidia.
$ nvidia-smi
Mon Mar 23 20:40:58 2020
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Is Bumblebee required in 19.10?
I'm trying to optimise the power management on my Dell XPS 15 laptop, whose current consumption is approximately equivalent to the output of a midsized nuclear power plant.
I would therefore like to ...
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Failed to start Cryptography Setup for cryptswap1
Since yesterday installing the bumblebee-nvidia package I cannot boot into my Ubuntu 17.10 Desktop any more.
I get this error:
[FAILED] Failed to start Cryptography Setup for cryptswap1.
See '...
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about nvidia graphics driver
I have installed NVidia graphics drivers for Ubuntu from the official NVidia site. When I installed I wasn't able to get my battery back up.
I heard about an open source driver for Ubuntu 14.04 so ...
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Do I need Bumblebee on my laptop?
I'm kinda a new user of Ubuntu and I have a Laptop that I just dualbooted Ubuntu. I was wondering if I'd need to install any kind of software for my Nvidia graphics card. I read about this Bumblebee ...
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Peaceful coexistance of Intel and Nviidia GLX
I have an optimus laptop, so both intel and nvidia cards. It has worked fine for years (running 12.04) using bumblebee. Yes, I know there are better options by now, but it works fine.
Problem is, ...
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Nvidia Optimus on 13.10 Use initial Support or Bumblebee?
After upgrading to 13.10 and reading this post: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/using-nvidia-graphics-drivers-with.html im wondering if the "initial optimus support" from nvidia or the bumblebee ...
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Help with System Tray Whitelisting?
I'm running 13.04 stock. I use Cryptkeeper and Davmail for access to things. How to get the systray Whitelist back in Ubuntu 13.04 is the method I used to get it working.
Everything was going ...
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how to fix "The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path was incorrect"? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
NVidia with Optimus conflicting in Ubuntu 12.04
I just bought a new Dell XPS 14 Ultrabook which comes with a NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M. So, following some indications that I ...
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Can I save some time from typing "optirun"?
As title, I've installed BUMBLEBEE and now my NVidia Graphics card is enabled. However, I have to type "optirun" before the command I want to executed (e.x. $ optirun openrave) to change the graphics ...
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Ubuntu 19.04 background kind of pixelized
I have a problem with my Ubuntu background. It seems to get some kind of pixelized. I searched the internet but couldn't find any solution. My background is the default background from Ubuntu 19.04.
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glxinfo Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
I have a Ubuntu 16.04 server with 3 Quadro P5000. I downloaded LINUX X64 (AMD64/EM64T) DISPLAY DRIVER with version number 390.77
I installed several mesa packages
$ apt list --installed | grep mesa
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Swrast cannot be loaded in Ubuntu 17.10
I updated the system today and now I am running into problems while running optirun glxgears in a machine with a Nvidia MX150.
I could find several questions regarding similar problems online, ...
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No display on laptop screen when using nvidia prime
I'm running nvidia drivers 367.57 on a precision 5510 (Quadro M1000M + skylake). It's connected to an external monitor via Displayport through a Dell D3100 dock. I'm running Ubuntu 16.10 with kernel 4....
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How to solve laptop GPU overheating problem in Ubuntu16.04
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Thinkpad W540. Spec: intel core i7 4800mq, Nvidia Quadra K2100M.
Problem:
I tried fresh installs of Ubuntu16.04, Kubuntu16.04, Ubuntu Gnome 16.04, and all of them suffer from the problem of ...
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Problem installing bbswitch on Ubuntu 14.04.3
I have an Nvidia Optimus graphic card installed and have the Nvidia driver installed and working for my Intel card, but I cannot switch to the Nvidia card. This is because bbswitch-dkms will not build ...
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Bumblebee fail safe x after reboot [GTX 755M][Ubuntu 15.10]
When I installed bumblebee and the nvidia-340 drivers Ubuntu booted into a normal session. On the next reboot, after running glmark2 with optirun in the previous session, the normal x session would ...
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Run OpenGL apps with CUDA with Nvidia Optimus and Bumblebee
I am attempting to start learning CUDA using my old laptop with a hybrid Nvidia GT650M/Intel iGPU setup. I have tried following the instructions on a couple resources[1,2,3]. Those resources helped ...
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Can't get NVIDIA Driver or CUDA working on Optimus laptop
I have an acer aspire V5-573G which comes with a NVIDIA OPTIMUS chipset and 750M gfx card. I have a fairly fresh install of 14.04 and I have tried a number of things to install driver and CUDA. In the ...
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Nvidia Optimus + CUDA + bumblebee + 14.04
I am the unfortunate to have laptop with optimus technology(nvidia gpu + intel integrated gpu), which seems to make a lot of problems to the new Ubutnu users.
I'm running fresh Ubuntu 14.04 install ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 + Bumblebee, Unable to control Brightness and have Bumblebee working at the same time
I'm current running Ubuntu 14.04 with a GTX 780m gpu on my laptop and using nvidia-331 drivers with bumblebee.
I was unable to control the brightness of my screen, but then I decided to follow some ...
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Laptop Lenovo Y570, bumblebee doesn't work?
I have a problem, I'm using ubuntu 14.04 on Lenovo Y570. There are a lot of materials for this question about linux and Nvidia GT555M video card, but still i'm new on linux and i can't handle it.
My ...
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Is bumblebee still relevant for Ubuntu 14.04 and up?
I've seen some posts announcing native Nvidia Optimus support since 14.04. But I've also found many tutorials of how to install and run bumblebee on this very same distribution.
So my question is... ...
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unable to load nvidia(bumblebee) in ubuntu 14.04 (only nouveau loads)
Bumblebee stopped working on my system after upgrading to stable version of Ubuntu 14.04.
DUring installation I get this error rmmod: ERROR: Module nouveau is in use
Setting up bumblebee (3.2.1-90~...
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Dual Display on Macbook Pro 9,1 with Ubuntu 14.04
I successfully installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my macbook pro 9,1.
Everything is now working correctly. Except I am unable to plug in a second screen.
If I plug in another screen :
At system Boot: I get ...
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Bumblebee running on Nvidia does not increase performance
When I run anything with bumblebee it doesn't provide performance increase compared to running on the Intel integrated chip. Is this an indication of incorrectly installed drivers and settings or just ...
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diablo 3 won't start after add optirun prefix
I've been trying to run the Diablo3 in the ubuntu 13.10 for a while now, sadly without a success... My problem is, that i can't run it with optirun. If I just type
wine "/home/belo/.wine/drive_c/...
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Bumblebee with 2 dedicated video cards?
So I have a lenovo 510p laptop, with integrated Intel HD 4600 graphics, plus 2 GeForce GT 755M-s, one of which is in the ultrabay and thus is removable. I'm running Lubuntu 13.10.
I use the ...
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How to choose dedicated videocard over integrated videocard in a laptop?
I have a Lenovo z580 laptop and it has 2 video cards
Intel HD Graphics 2000 integrated in Intel Pentium Dual Core CPU B970
nVidia Geforce GT 630M.
I use Bumblebee but it doesn't work for Virtual ...
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Nvidia 740M still not working after Bumblebee installation
First of all, I have checked a lot of similar topics, but I still can't get my laptop to use Nvidia 740M.
So first things first.
I have a laptop Asus X550V (i5-3230, 4gb RAM, Nvidia 740M + Intel ...
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Error message when running OpenGL programs with bumblebee
X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 152 (DRI2)
Minor opcode of failed request: 8 (DRI2SwapBuffers )
Resource id in failed ...
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Random black dot on the screen
black dots, or more something like this _-, apprear on my screen, but only in windows, not on the side bar. It is very anoying since it apprear every 30 sec and sometime every 5 sec in row.
I have ...
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How to correctly install bumblebee 3.1 with nvidia-experimental-310
Bumblebee doesn't work for me with the experimental NVidia driver. If I use NVidia current, everything is ok.
uname -a
Linux adrian-K55VM 3.8.2-030802-generic #201303031906 SMP Mon Mar 4 00:07:09 UTC ...
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Ubuntu 11.04 Bumblebee package not found
The official nvidia drivers are not working properly on my thinkpad T520 So I was going to give bumblebee a shot.
I have an ubuntu 11.04 install and am reciving a package not found error when trying ...