Friday, March 11, 2016

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



  1. step what i do:


    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia

    restart system


    optirun glxgears

    This message give me:
    Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver
    Aborting because fallback start is disabled.


  2. Open sudo gedit /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf and change Driver= to Driver=nvidia and KernelDriver=nvidia-current to KernelDriver=nvidia. Restart the system and run optirun glxgears.


    This message gives me:


     The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
    Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?


Anybody have idea?!



KernelDriver=nvidia-current is correct if you have installed the nvidia-current package, you should not change that on Ubuntu. Since Ubuntu 12.10, you need to install the kernel headers yourself.


So, revert your KernelDriver change (the Driver= one does not matter) and install the kernel headers:


sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

This should automatically build the nvidia module. When this is completed, reboot or start the Bumblebee daemon:


sudo start bumblebeed

Then try running optirun glxspheres again.


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