Questions tagged [bumblebee]
Bumblebee is a software solution trying to support nVidia Optimus laptops
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NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running
I just installed CUDA in a notebook like this:
sudo apt-get install cuda
Like said here.
The compilation wokrs just fine but when I try to run I got the followin problem:
CUDA error at file.cu:128 ...
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Removing Nvidia CUDA Toolkit and installing new one
I installed the CUDA 5.5 package on Ubuntu 14.04 (which is not supported for this version of Ubuntu version) , and I didn't do it well.
I want to remove what I've installed earlier and install a new ...
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Error loading libGL.so.1
When attempting to run various pieces of software (notably Steam and Yenka), I have come across an error similar to this: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object ...
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How can I get nVidia CUDA or OpenCL working on a laptop with nVidia discrete card/Intel Integrated Graphics?
Background: I'm a 3D artist (as a hobby) and have recently started using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as a dual-boot with Windows 7. It's running on my a fairly new 64-bit Toshiba laptop with an nVidia GeForce GT ...
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How to set up nVidia Optimus/Bumblebee in 14.04
The previous methods i have used to set up Bumblebee on 13.10 based distributions is not working under Ubuntu 14.04 . How can I set up Bumblebee and Bumblebee GUI in Ubuntu 14.04 ?
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Bumblebee or Ironhide?
I have an ASUS N53S, and I am using bumblebee. I can see it from the frame rates in Tux Racer. Some people refer to Bumblebee and some to Ironhide. What is the difference?
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Does Ubuntu 16.04 support hybrid graphics cards (bumblebee)
Does Ubuntu 16.04 support hybrid graphics cards?
I ask because of the support of ubuntu snappy core in Ubuntu 16.04.
I use bumblebee to start, for example a game, in better graphics quality.
(optirun ...
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How do I get HDMI output working on a Dell XPS 15 L502x?
Recently I've bought my dream's notebook, a Dell XPS 15 but since then this dream became a kind of endless nightmare.
I'm almost getting crazy to make my graphic card driver work properly, but it ...
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How to use "prime-select on-demand" in latest Kubuntu 19.10
I'm using
Kubuntu 19.10
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz
NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 435.21
and since Kubuntu has dropped bumblebee I was looking for another possibility to use ...
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External displays with Bumblebee
I'm trying to connect my external monitor (via VGA cable) to my laptop, using Bumblebee and the Optimus configuration.
I have a Lenovo W520, with an Intel GMA HD 3000 and an Nvidia Quadro 2000M. The ...
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Bumblebee: Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) No devices detected
After upgrading to 13.04, I get this error and other answers (Optirun glxgears: Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) No devices detected, 'Cannot access secondary GPU' error with ...
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The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect
I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 in a Intel Ivy Bridge with integrated graphics and NVidia GPU with Optimus tech, however i cant manage it to work properly. I have already passed by the solution ...
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How to install nVidia drivers with Bumblebee on Ubuntu 14.04
As the title, how can I correctly setup nvidia-optimus technology on Ubuntu?
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Garbage in primus with nvidia bumblebee on Trusty
The following appears when running optirun glxgears with primus and nvidia-331-updates configured in bumblebee.conf:
This is on 14.04 Trusty Tahr, upgraded from 13.10. The application seems to run on ...
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Bumblebee Intel+Nvidia on 15.10 blackscreen issue
I have a fresh install of Kubuntu 15.10, i have a msi GT70 laptop with optimus.
I have installed bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia, it is absolutely needed because nouveau keeps crashing at login.
So i ...
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bumblebee doesn't work on Ubuntu 18.04
I installed a fresh version of Ubuntu 18.04 on my optimus laptop then I followed the instructions from this site to install the bumblebee package.
It succeeded but I saw a line during the installation ...
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How to install nvidia optimus driver?
I have followed http://ubuntuportal.com/2012/01/bumblebee-3-0-tumblewed-nvidia-optimus-gpu-switching-for-linux-has-been-released-how-to-install-bumblebee-3-0-on-ubuntu.html this guide to install ...
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Bumblebee Overheating [closed]
My laptop Samsung RF411(Geforce 540M) is overheating when i run optirun glxspheres the temperature of the core jumps to 97C and the GPU to 72C and after some minuties the computer shutdown.
An ...
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Do I need to install Bumblebee for Hybrid Graphics system to enable Optimus on Ubuntu 16.04?
I am asking this question because I have found articles basically saying that some computers have enabled Optimus technique with some propriatory graphics drivers, for example this one from Ubuntu ...
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Screen Resolution stuck at 640x480 after installing Bumblebee
I have a Dell XPS 15z laptop.
As you can see here, there are some issues with NVidia drivers. The site recommends installation of Bumblebee (instructions given in the link).
I am posting it again for ...
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Why does vblank_mode improve framerate drastically in benchmarks?
I am messing around trying to find the best graphics solution for my Laptop with Optimus Nvidia. (ASUS K55VD)
I've got bumblebeed running and i use optirun when i want to improve graphics performance....
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How can i see that bumblebee has disabled nvidia?
Im trying to find out how to see if bumblebee which i installed on my 12.10 installation on my k55vd asus laptop...
How can know for sure that bumblebee is turning the nvidia off?
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Nvidia with Bumblebee installation for 16.04
Are there any I struction for installing Nvidia and Bumblebee on 16.04? I'm trying to do a cleans install but all the procedures I've found end in a state where Ubuntu boot to low graphics mode and if ...
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Using NVIDIA Optimus on Ubuntu 17.10
I have a laptop with a GeForce 940MX which I would like to use. Unfortunately installing the official nvidia drivers under "additional drivers" and reverting from wayland to x11 does not do the trick.
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Bumblebee and Lenovo IdeaPad Z580 with Nvidia GeForce GT 630M
Bumblebee doesn't recognizes my graphic card,
$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible ...
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Why is primusrun slower than optirun?
Could someone please explain these results? Is primusrun too smart for glxspheres and simply not doing extra work?
...:~$ glxspheres
Polygons in scene: 62464
Visual ID of window: 0xaf
Context is ...
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Dell XPS 15 9570 (2018) disable nvidia GPU
I have recently bought a Dell XPS 15 9570 and have successfully installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it.
Mostly things work as expected, but there are some issues related to power and the nvidia GPU.
Currently, ...
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Steam Ubuntu 14.04 libGL.so.1 Bumblebee
I'm trying to install Steam on Ubuntu 14.04 but I'm missing a library
You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libGL.so.1
I have installed libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 but it ...
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IronHide / BumbleBee with a VirtualBox VM. Will it pass through video acceleration to the physical card?
Any ideas whether you can run a Windows VM via IronHide for graphics card acceleration? I'd like to play games / watch bluray etc utilising my video card.
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Correct nvidia+intel graphics setup in 14.04
Just upgraded to 14.04 to try to fix some other issues. Now, something has gone wrong with my graphics.
I have a Thinkpad T530 with Intel and Nvidia graphics cards.
$ inxi -SGx
System: Host: xyz ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Nvidia GT555M Bumblebee
I have laptop with Nvidia GT 555M video card.
System Ubuntu 12.10, kernel Linux 3.5.0-17-generic
step what i do:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-...
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Using Nvidia 319 with bumblebee
I have Optimus laptop running Raring and now I'm using nvidia 304 drivers, which have bad performance and some games are not working properly (e.g. Oil Rush is working properly only with 319, with ...
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Bumblebee : Module bbswitch could not be loaded
I've upgraded to 12.04 and I had to switch from Ironhide to the latest version of Bumblebee.
Now, when I try to run bumblebeed, I get this error:
FATAL: Module bbswitch not found.
[ERROR]Module ...
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Running OpenCL apps with bumblebee
I have installed CUDA Toolkit 5.0 and nvidia-experimental-310 drivers. CUDA examples works fine with optirun but every OpenCL app fails to run with error calling clGetPlatformIDs function. I've tried ...
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Can't install Ubuntu since 10.10
When I try to install ubuntu on my notebook from a disk, I get the screen that asks be what I want to do, (boot live, install etc)... no matter what I do, when I get to the point where I select an ...
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Can I set my Optimus Nvidia card to run Unity3D with bumblebee?
I'd like to know whether I can run compiz on my Nvidia card to speed things up. It's a Dell XPS15 laptop but I'm mostly using it as a desktop, so battery life is not important. Apparently my Intel ...
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Problem with optirun bumblebee [closed]
I'm trying to run optirun on my Lenovo G580 with nVidia GeForce 610M on Ubuntu 14.04. Getting the following error
$ optirun glxgears
[ 98.457967] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (...
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modprobe nvidia throws error: could not insert 'off'
I am trying to configure bumblebee to switch my nvidia discrete card. As well bumblebee crashes when tries to modprobe nvidia. When i try to do it manually, i face the same error:
$ modprobe nvidia
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Ubuntu 20.04 Installing Nvidia drivers
I am having troubles with getting Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 drivers going on my AMD Ryzen desktop. I have entered the following terminal commands:
ubuntu-drivers devices
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
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How to install Bumblebee-UI (GUI) in Ubuntu 12.04
I am quite interested in installing Bumblebee-UI in Ubuntu 12.04 after seeing this video on youtube. Link to video
Has anyone been able to install it successfully?
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Bumblebee and AMD Radeon cards
Does Bumblebee (https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee) work with AMD Radeon HD/Intel cards or just with nVidia/Intel cards? Should I always run applications using optirun before the command ...
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Black screen on boot nvidia optimus card
Whenever I boot my screen comes up with a black screen with the same text as if I hit Control Alt F1.
My graphics card is an Nvidia Optimus card using Bumblebee. It also sometimes comes up with "This ...
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Laptop Nvidia Bumblebee clarification
So this is partly clarification (to help future users) and partly questions to make sure I understand what's going on.
Recently attempted to make the switch from MacOSX to Ubuntu as I can't afford ...
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Installed 14.04 and Nvidia Graphics card won't load
So I've installed 14.04 and after hours of working on it I finally got grub to work. I noticed during the live cds that my main monitor (powered by my nvidia card) wasn't working, and I figured that ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Boot hangs at PKCS#7 signature not signed with a trusted key
I had a working 16.04 working perfectly (but no bumblebee) and then upgraded to 18.04. Gnome was very laggy so I installed Unity and lightdm but it was still laggy. So I thought something was wrong ...
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How to launch a single application on Nvidia card with proprietary driver on 16.04
At the very beginning of the support of Optimus technology on Ubuntu, there was Bumblebee, that could launch a single application on the dedicated Nvidia card, while leaving the rest of the system on ...
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How do I only use my discrete nvidia graphics card (turn off integrated graphics)?
How do I turn off the Intel integrated graphics and only use my discrete nvidia 960m card?
I know I can install bumblebee and then use optirun, but I want to use the nvidia card by default. I always ...
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Intel display controller unclaimed
I have just reinstalled Ubuntu 12.10 on my Optimus laptop with Intel Ivy Bridge and Nvidia 650M graphics cards. I have set up Bumblebee following this guide: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/use-nvidia-...
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bumblebee::Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver
EDIT
As of today, this was fixed by the latest nvidia-current update :)
Until last week i had a working bumblee/nvidia set up.
Now, when i do
optirun -vv firefox
I'm greeted by:
[ 6174.504548] [...
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primus: fatal: Bumblebee daemon reported: error: Could not load GPU driver
I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 and then installed bumblebee following the instructions on Ubuntu Bumblebee wiki(where they said that primusrun is better than optirun for version=> 13.10) But when I ...