Nvidia Optimus – Bumblebee or Ironhide?

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I have an ASUS N53S, and I am using bumblebee. I can see it from the frame rates in Tux Racer. Some people refer to Bumblebee and some to Ironhide. What is the difference?

Best Answer

Bumblebee just released a new version few days ago.

From the Ironhide project page: "I have given up on supporting the nvidia packages myself.."

Related Solutions

How to Uninstall Ironhide and Install Other Packages

I've fixed this by doing the following:

Edited the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/ironhide.postrm

Commented out the lines:

if [ `cat /etc/group |grep ironhide |wc -l` > 0 ]; then
        groupdel ironhide
fi

I was then able to successfully run:

$ sudo apt-get remove ironhide

Nvidia 319 with Bumblebee – How to Use on Ubuntu 13.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-319 nvidia-settings-319

Then edit bumblebee.conf

 sudo nano /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf

It should have this lines:

# You need to explicit the driver used by Bumblebee server.
Driver=nvidia

KernelDriver=nvidia-graphics-drivers-319
PMMethod=auto
# colon-separated path to the nvidia libraries
LibraryPath=/usr/lib/nvidia-graphics-drivers-319:/usr/lib32/nvidia-graphics-drivers-319
# comma-separated path of the directory containing nvidia_drv.so and the
# default Xorg modules path
XorgModulePath=/usr/lib/nvidia-graphics-drivers-319/xorg,/usr/lib/xorg/modules
XorgConfFile=/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia

Restart the bumblebeed daemon using the following command:

 sudo service bumblebeed restart

Just install & tested its working fine

optirun glxspheres

Bumblebee-Project

WEBUPD8

optirun -vvv glxspheres 
[ 1385.959123] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 1385.959847] [INFO]Configured driver: nvidia
[ 1385.960226] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.2.1 starting...
[ 1385.960269] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
[ 1385.960281] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 1385.960292] [DEBUG] X display: :8
[ 1385.960302] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/lib/nvidia-319:/usr/lib32/nvidia-319
[ 1385.960313] [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
[ 1385.960323] [DEBUG] Accel/display bridge: auto
[ 1385.960333] [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy
[ 1385.960343] [DEBUG] VGLrun extra options: 
[ 1385.960354] [DEBUG] Primus LD Path: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/primus:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/primus
[ 1385.960419] [DEBUG]Using auto-detected bridge virtualgl
[ 1388.086427] [INFO]Response: Yes. X is active.

[ 1388.086477] [INFO]Running application using virtualgl.
[ 1388.086729] [DEBUG]Process vglrun started, PID 3491.
Polygons in scene: 62464
Visual ID of window: 0x20
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GT 525M/PCIe/SSE2
94.087784 frames/sec - 102.571552 Mpixels/sec
104.808515 frames/sec - 101.916638 Mpixels/sec
105.079375 frames/sec - 102.180025 Mpixels/sec
105.155037 frames/sec - 102.253599 Mpixels/sec
[ 1397.201911] [DEBUG]SIGCHILD received, but wait failed with No child processes
[ 1397.201986] [DEBUG]Socket closed.
[ 1397.202029] [DEBUG]Killing all remaining processes.