New answers tagged nvidia-optimus
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee The installation has been updated on 26/04/2013.
Bumblebee aims to provide support for NVIDIA Optimus laptops for GNU/Linux distributions. Using Bumblebee, you can use your NVIDIA card for rendering graphics which will be displayed using the Intel card.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
sudo apt-get ...
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bbswitch is essentially the service that monitors the use of the graphics card, and switches it off as and when possible to conserve energy, and reduce heat. So yes, removing bbswitch is bad idea.
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just follow the instructions from this blog :
http://chrislaidler.blogspot.ru/2012/12/getting-nvidia-optimus-working-on-my.html
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I succeeded on my laptop with external HDMI : see my blog here
I still need to figure out - at least if it's not a bug from the drivers - how to get everything working when actually NOT using HDMI because in my case it doesn't work (with nvidia drivers), but some others reported it's working.
Maybe you'll have better luck !
Cheers!
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Well I had same problem after upgrade and nothing I found helped. I had newest version (3.2.1) installed, because I re-added ppa after upgrade and updated bumblebee.
I did one stupid thing though: I removed ppa with ppa-purge and removed bumblebee. Then I added ppa and installed bumblebee again. And magically it started working (at least after reboot). I ...
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Uninstalling ubuntu-desktop wasn't necessary. The installation was successful.
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I just had the same issue. This driver is not compatible with Ubuntu 13.04 and linux kernel 3.8. I removed the Nvidia driver by using the command sudo nvdia-uninstall
Then restart the system. If you have optimus graphics, install bumblebee or else install the nvidia-310 driver for a dedicated Nvidia graphics card.
Restart the system and then move the ...
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Installing multiple drivers simultaneously is a sure-shot way of messing the system. I strongly suggest purging, removing and cleaning all versions of the drivers installed.
run the .run file and go through the uninstallation process.
run sudo apt-get purge -remove nvidia* to be sure
check the loaded modules using
lsmod | grep nvidia* and
lsmod | grep ...
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You could try installing the drivers from https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa and installing Bumblebee to handle the Optimus issue: https://launchpad.net/~bumblebee/+archive/stable. Check my answer to a related question here: Launcher and panel missing [ubuntu 13.04].
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Alright. Bumblebee is installed and the optirun command seems to be working. Is there a way to check that:
Power consumption and performance goes up with optirun.
Power consumption and performance goes down after closing the application.
Anyhow, thank you again for some outstanding support! Ubuntu IS hard, but with such support, you just can't get your ...
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I had the same problem with about the same hardware (GT520M instead). You need to install a graphics driver for the card. Installing bumblebee will let you use the Intel HD graphics by default (to save battery time) and the option to run applications with the Nvidia graphics card (using optirun). First, add the bumblebee repository and update:
sudo ...
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Ok. I now seem to be in Unity3d (normal Unity). I did absolutely nothing. And I just noticed that I could open myunity without the error message saying I was in 2d mode.
So that's one problem ruled out! Thanks!
Now the question would be: how to use Bumblebee to have Optimus support?
Bumblebee doesn't seem to have a graphical interface, so I'm sort ...
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In response to Jorge Suarez de Lis' proposition, I ran this command line:
lshw -c display
Here are the results:
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus ...
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I encountered this issue after upgrading some of my packages. It seems the problem was caused by the Nvidia kernel module being renamed from "nvidia" to "nvidia_current".
If you have the nvidia-current package installed, you can fix the issue by editing /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf and setting the following values:
...
[bumblebeed]
Driver=nvidia
...
...
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I found the following file:
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-current-latitude-e6530.conf
I deleted it and optirun worked!
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I think unity 3d should be automatically enabled after installing the right drivers. There should be a program for this called restricted driver. Just search for drivers in the Dash.
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-319 nvidia-settings-319
Then edit bumblebee.conf
sudo nano /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
It should have this lines:
# You need to explicit the driver used by Bumblebee server.
Driver=nvidia
KernelDriver=nvidia-319
PMMethod=auto
# colon-separated path to the ...
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If you have Nvidia optimus try installing the new beta version of Nvidia 319.12 with bumblebee.
sudo apt-get remove bumblebee-nvidia nvidia-current nvidia-settings
sudo apt-get install bumblebee-nvidia nvidia-319 nvidia-settings-319
Link http://orkultus.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/how-to-nvidia-319-12-drivers-in-ubuntu-based-systems-with-bumblebee/
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Try installing the new beta version of Nvidia 319.12 with bumblebee.
sudo apt-get remove bumblebee-nvidia nvidia-current nvidia-settings
sudo apt-get install bumblebee-nvidia nvidia-319 nvidia-settings-319
Link http://orkultus.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/how-to-nvidia-319-12-drivers-in-ubuntu-based-systems-with-bumblebee/
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Bumblebee is an unofficial tool that brings Nvidia Optimus GPU switching to Linux. It's useful to increase battery life by only switching the dedicated GPU (Nvidia) on when needed. Nvidia has added initial Optimus support in their latest 319.12 beta drivers, but it doesn't have GPU switching yet.
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vblank_mode=0 tells the graphic card to ignore the refresh rate of your monitor and just try to reach the maximux fps it's capable off.
You usually don't want this, because it causes tearing and wastes battery life without any benefits (you can't view more then, in your case, 60fps because your monitor isn't able to change what's displaying more than 60 ...
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So to get Bumblebee to work
a) Run the following command to find out the BusID for your Nvidia graphics card:
lspci | grep NVIDIA
The BusID is the number in the beginning of the line returned by the command above. Here's how the output for the command above looks like on my laptop:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce ...
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Do you actually want to run a new session on the other monitor, or do you just want to be able to run applications (like mplayer) on the other monitor? I wasn't clear from reading your question.
I have an ASUS N56VM and I was able to get mplayer running on the external monitor (connected with HDMI) using bumblebee. Audio doesn't work, unfortunately. I ...
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