Ubuntu – Ubuntu 12.10 Nvidia GT555M Bumblebee

12.10bumblebeenvidia

I have laptop with Nvidia GT 555M video card.
System Ubuntu 12.10, kernel Linux 3.5.0-17-generic

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.

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?!

Best Answer

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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As you have quite new GPU hardware you should use new NVIDIA drivers and software as well.

Replace bumblebee with nvidia-prime to switch between integrated and dedicated graphics.

Reinstall the NVIDIA drivers, but first uninstall all NVIDIA software and remove the bumblebee.

Open a terminal and execute:

sudo apt-get purge nvidia* '^bumblebee.*'  
sudo reboot

When the GRUB boot menu appears : Highlight the Ubuntu menu entry and press the E key.
Add the nouveau.modeset=0 parameter to the end of the Linux line ... Then press F10 to boot.

Install the stable NVIDIA proprietary drivers from the Ubuntu repositories (does not apply to ubuntu 12.04:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-352 nvidia-prime
sudo reboot

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-355 nvidia-prime
sudo reboot

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