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[Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 12 June 2012 09:49:08 jason peel wrote:
> Hi Lekensteyn,
> 
> Thanks for reply AND CORRECTION DOH!
> 
> So some further thoughts,
> 
> As I get a black screen NOT blank screen but do have a cursor could it be
> some sort of option switch I need to put in place like which Xdisplay to
> connect to?  Reading what you have put I am not sure but if x failed to
> start, would I be able to see a cursor?
/var/log/Xorg.0.log (and the previous Xorg.0.log.old file) would be a good 
point to start debugging.

> The system knows that the Nvidia is there as lshw shows it.  I will have a
> play around and see what else I can come up with.
Well yes, the hardware is detected, but this does not mean that X can use it 
now. That's why Bumblebee is needed in first place.

> I am a total noob when it comes to programming but thats why I would like
> this working as I start a course in openGL this September.
OpenGL works with Bumblebee (I still need the proprietary nvidia drivers for 
OpenGL 3 things though, ugh.)
 
> This is not important so please I only ask in case some one has experience.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jason
> 
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 June 2012 09:14:21 jason peel wrote:
> > > hi All,
> > > 
> > > Quick question that shows my complete lack of understanding and thus
> > > huge
> > > gratitude to those who make these things work!
> > > 
> > > I got Bubblebee working sweet as on Kubuntu thank you all!
> > 
> > "Bumblebee" ;)
> > 
> > > Tried it last night on an Enlightenment based system and got only a
> > 
> > cursor
> > 
> > > and black screen.  Is this something to do with the window manager?  is
> > > there something that points to gdm or what have you that E17 does not
> > 
> > use?
> > I don't know E17, but it sounds like that the nvidia driver is not
> > deconfigured
> > (such that the intel driver + mesa would be used) and thereby the X server
> > fails to start.