Sorry about my previous post. I got a bit short on time and couldn’t write the complete story.
I did go through those instructions. This is my third time I installed netrunner during the weekend after screwing up my previous installations troubleshooting this matter. I somehow ended up with some form of non graphical log in that did not accept my user name/password.
However the nvidia setting complained about the driver not running or something like that. Another thing was that I had to remove video-hybrid-intel-nouveau-bumblebee before installing the video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-bumblebee above as they were in conflict.
When I did the primusrun glxspheres64 it complained about not being able to initialize the GPU. After reinstalling bumblebee it then said that the driver could not be loaded.
I did was is suggested in the sections
Configure The Resolution/Refresh Rate and Configure X Screen settings (OpenGL Settings, Antialiasing, X Server XVideo) at the Manjaro Wiki.
Also did a
sudo mkinitcpio -p linux310
I don’t know if that was what totally made my system flip out.
I should say that it was running fine of the Netrunner ubuntu based so It should be possible get it to work. I will continue troubleshooting, any suggestions are welcome. Thanks!
Also make sure your system is up to date, a lot has changed since the ISO was released including how the system handles 3D. the Fist update should be run from the command line:
This has been suggested, but to confirm.
My experience: I’ve had all sorts of problems with bumblebee and kernel 3.10, try upgrading your kernel to 3.11 or later:
$ mhwd-kernel -h // For help
$ mhwd-kernel -l // List available kernels
$ sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux311 // Install kernel 3.11
yes, some have reported isues with 3,10 and bumblebee, you should upgrade to either 3.12 (LTS) or 3.14 (Latest). to do this run:
rmc is to remove current ie. 3.10 if you want to leave it just in case you can omit this from the commands I gave.
Thanks to you all for the suggestions, really appreciate it.
Unfortunately the problems continued even on the 3.13 kernel and got errors like
primus: fatal: Bumblebee daemon reported: error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0. Please
when trying to run primusrun glxspheres64
Even trying to run just glxspheres64 I got:
Polygons in scene: 62464
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
ERROR (603): Could not obtain RGB visual with requested properties
I have now gone to the 3.14 kernel. Uninstalled Nvidia-hybrid driver and installed the nouveau-hybrid instead. Reinstalled a bunch of other intel drivers, as well as primus, bbswitch and bumblebee made a bumblebee group added me as a user and s on. Now it seems to work for most times. There as still times after a boot that I get the GPU not accessible error and though that it might have something to do with bbswitch. According to the buḿblebee/bbswitch wiki one should not need to do anything, as the default is to switch off the GPU on start and switch on when shutdown in the /etc/modprobe.d/mhwd-bbswitch.conf it was
options bbswitch load_state=0 unload_state=0
and changed it to
options bbswitch load_state=0 unload_state=1
Maybe that did the trick, will see after a few reboots.
i still get problems with primusrun though. when I do primusrun glxspheres64 i get
primus: fatal: failed to load any of the libraries: /usr/$LIB/nvidia/libGL.so.1
/usr/$LIB/nvidia/libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM76 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 640M] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 09)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 (rev c4)
04:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5229 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
Is that enough? Thanks for having a look at this.
Although since things seem to work with the nouveau driver and the GPU is switched off and can be used with optirun I don’t I don’t really need to get the nvidia driver working.
