Using bumblebee for opteron graphics on Ubuntu 12.10 on a Samsung Chronos 7 Series laptop

Getting this to work has been the bane of my morning, so here's what I did to eventually get it working:

{% highlight bash %} 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 linux-headers-generic sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) sudo apt-get install nvidia-current {% endhighlight %}

Edit /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf (as root). Change:

Driver=
to
Driver=nvidia

and

KernelDriver=nvidia-current
to
KernelDriver=nvidia

Edit /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia (as root). Change:

Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"

to

Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"

A reboot now should enable you to do: "optirun glxgears" without any problems. If it isn't working, make sure that bumblebee-nvidia is actually installed. Also, when the nvidia-current package was installed, make sure it can find the kernel source and isn't giving an error showing that it didn't actually build the module.

My next step is to verify that bbswitch is actually working to give the power saving.

Using bumblebee for opteron graphics on Ubuntu 12.10 on a Samsung Chronos 7 Series laptop was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on December 30, 2012.