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I recently had to reinstall my Ubuntu 14.04.3 and now have problems with using bumblebee. I installed it as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee, but when I try to check it I get this:

ilya@ilya-GE40-2OL:~$ primusrun glxgears
primus: fatal: Bumblebee daemon reported: error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0.  Please

Or

ilya@ilya-GE40-2OL:~$ optirun glxgears
[  121.851700] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0.  Please

[  121.851723] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

Any ideas?

PS My laptop is MSI GE40 2OL with nvidia card G750M

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First remove the old driver and bumblebee

sudo apt-get purge nvidia* bumblebee*

Now add this PPA and install the driver

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-352

Now reinstall bumblebee

sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia

Now just reboot

sudo reboot

This will ensure you have the latest driver and bumblebee installed.

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  • Can it be changed without restarting X server? As far as I know nvidia-prime requires that, and I really don't want to do it every time I need to run a programme with nvidia graphics...
    – Phlya
    Jan 31, 2016 at 22:40
  • I don't have a laptop on me to check but I am sure you can set it to always use just Nvidia if you wish. Perhaps just wait and see if someone using it right now can comment or just give it a go, if you don't like it uninstall it like this sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
    – Mark Kirby
    Jan 31, 2016 at 22:44
  • I also don't want to have it use Nvidia all the time, the lifetime would be horrible then.
    – Phlya
    Jan 31, 2016 at 23:47
  • Looking at some old questions about bumblebee an updated driver should fix this error, I will update the answer with modern instructions based on askubuntu.com/questions/295270/failing-to-initialize-nvidia-gpu
    – Mark Kirby
    Feb 1, 2016 at 0:04

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