NVIDIA Driver is Installed but not Working...

[Ashish Rout]

nvidia GT630M installed on linux mint 14(Nadia)...but it is not working ....
Then I came across bumblebee project for optimus graphics cards and followed instructions on
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee#Installation

inxi -Gx output-

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Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           Card-2: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 630M] bus-ID: 01:00.0 
           X.Org: 1.13.0 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 9.0 Direct Rendering: Yes

but optirun <progname> not working..
&following error is displayed...

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[ 1401.636471] [ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
[ 1401.636510] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?

[anandrkris]

Not sure, Ashish. Few links shared below. Hope this helps.

https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bu ... issues/337
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthrea ... ost1598832
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... st12531840

I have Nvidia Geforce 540M Gpx card with bumblebee installed and optirun <game / program> just works fine. Though I could not get HDMI display to work.

[AlbertP]

You could try reinstalling it:

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apt install --reinstall bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia

@ anandrkris: That HDMI output is probably connected to your NVIDIA GPU, but the laptop screen to your Intel GPU: using monitors connected to different GPUs is not really supported on Linux so far (mostly an X Server limitation). That may change in future.

[anandrkris]

@AlbertP - Even I thought of suggesting re-installation to Ashish but looking at the first link seems more like a bug with 3.1 version of bumblebee.

HDMI - Yes, I am aware of it. Have posted it here as well. There are workarounds suggested by cloning the session, am yet to try it.

[AlbertP]

You're right, a new version of bumblebee appeared in the PPA the day before yesterday (I hadn't yet noticed that there was a 3.1).

[anandrkris]

Yes, I got it installed couple of days ago. More here.

[Ashish Rout]

@AlbertP - Even I thought of suggesting re-installation to Ashish but looking at the first link seems more like a bug with 3.1 version of bumblebee.

HDMI - Yes, I am aware of it. Have posted it here as well. There are workarounds suggested by cloning the session, am yet to try it.

Thanks for the replay , i just reinstall , but problem remain same , So it is probally a bug , so waiting for it to be fixed..

[AlbertP]

Yesterday somebody told me in the chat the Bumblebee daemon could be started manually:

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sudo bumblebeed --daemon

[mat3j]

Having the same problem since last update. How can I downgrade Bumblebee to 3.0?