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[Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Christopher,

I see you've been using the .sh installer from nvidia.com which is a kiss
of death for Optimus
laptops (for the moment). Remove that driver by running `nvidia-uninstall`
in recovery mode.

If you do not need to share the external display with the laptop screen,
you can start a
secondary X server using /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia and by setting the
right library
paths as well. For convenience, run `optirun sh` and keep it open.
Alternatively, edit
/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf and set KeepUnusedXServer=true and
PMMethod=none (for the driver-nvidia section). After doing that and `sudo
restart bumblebeed`
you can run `optirun whatever` to start the X server. Then you can run a
program on the second
display with:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/nvidia-current:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export DISPLAY=:8
yourprogram here

Additional configuration may be necessary in xorg.conf.nvidia like removing
UseEDID "false"
and AutoAddDevices "false".

HTH.

Regards,
Peter

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Christopher Small <metasoarous@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Attached is the bumblebee-bugreport output.
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 with kernel 3.0.0-15-generic
>
> The manufacture/model info is as follows:
>
>    Dell Inc.
>    baseboard-product-name: 032T9K
>    baseboard-version     : A02
>    system-manufacturer   : Dell Inc.
>    system-product-name   : Latitude E6420
>    system-version        : 01
>    bios-vendor           : Dell Inc.
>    bios-version          : A08
>    bios-release-date     : 10/18/2011
>
>
> optirun -V output
>
>    optirun (Bumblebee) 3.0
>    Copyright (C) 2011 The Bumblebee Project
>    License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
>    This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>    There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
>
> Problem description:
>
> I was able to get bumblebee working on a new work computer that I just
> got, but was disappointed when I realized that with this specific
> model, the HDMI seems to be piped directly from the NVIDIA card, thus
> making it impossible to get the maximal resolution on my secondary
> monitor at work. I tried uninstalling bumblebee using my package
> tools, and then installed the normal NVIDIA drivers directly. I got a
> blank screen and wasn't able to start up X. Removing the xorg.conf
> file and rebooting, I was able to get back into X, but the graphics
> were not working. I messed around with the config files a bit with one
> of our tech support staff, but we weren't able to get that working.
>
> I figured that I was at least able to get Gnome Shell and Unity
> working with the bumblebee setup, and that would be better than
> nothing. But when I removed the NVIDIA drivers and tried to install
> everything through bumblebee again, I was not able to get Gnome Shell
> or Unity back, even though optirun was working from the terminal
> (showing the high frame rates that I would expect from the graphics
> card). I went through all of the Troubleshooting guide and wasn't able
> to find anything that helped. I've tried all sorts of apt-purging,
> removing, and autocleaning to make sure that nothing was getting left
> behind that shouldn't, but to no avail.
>
> Part of me is suspicious that this is related to some xorg.conf issue.
> Because I had our tech guy helping me, it was unclear which xorg.conf
> file was actually working with the first bumblebee install. So some
> help about what there should be in `/etc/X11/xorg.conf` (if anything,
> since I noticed there is stuff in `/etc/bumblebee`) might be the
> ticket.
>
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Christopher Small
> Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
> Computational Biology Program
> csmall@xxxxxxxxx
>
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