Optirun uses wrong display

[salvipeter]

Hi!

I have recently upgraded to Linux Mint 19.1 (kernel 4.15.0-46-generic), and I am trying to get my Intel + NVIDIA GeForce 610M cards working with BumbleBee.

Running

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optirun lspci -vnnn

confirms that the kernel drivers in use are OK: i915 for the Intel card, and nvidia for the NVIDIA card.

Related installed packages:
- nvidia-driver-390 : 390.116-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
- bumblebee : 3.2.1-17

If I run

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optirun nvidia-settings -c :8

everything looks OK.

But when I try

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optirun glxinfo

It returns with

name of display: :0
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
...

Also if I try

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optirun env DISPLAY=:8 glxinfo

it works, so it seems that optirun does not force programs to use virtual display 8...

Any ideas?

Thank you!

[roblm]

Bumblebee is not working completely in Mint 19.1. I don’t think it has not been updated since Ubuntu 14.04 / Mint 17, so users have been adding workarounds to use it. This guide is about the best I’ve seen but the command primusrun still can’t be used. Besides the package bumblebee, you need to install bumblebee-nvidia and primus and configure some files.
https://float-middle.com/ubuntu-18-04-s ... vidia-390/

[salvipeter]

This guide is about the best I’ve seen [..]
https://float-middle.com/ubuntu-18-04-s ... vidia-390/

Thank you for the answer. I tried most of the things this guide says; also I found this bug report very useful:
https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bu ... issues/971

In the end, I installed virtualgl, and now at least I can use GLX-dependent programs with

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optirun -b virtualgl <program>