Monday, March 20, 2017

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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