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ahtoxa-ghost

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Registered: 2015-12-09

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Optrimus nvidia on Arch

Hello. 3 days ago I had installed arch. I use ubuntu for year before. Now I faced problem with optimus.
As I understand it, switching in between cards does not work like ubuntu? There is No similar,like nvidia-prime?
Bumblebee also not work. It gives me error:
[ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
[ 2354.866485] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?

I install nvidia, bumblebee, primus. Bumblebee i install from offic repos, then from aur, result: not working.
Please help

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: Optrimus nvidia on Arch

Did you check the archwiki page for bumblebee ?

It explains how to install and use bumblebee.

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ahtoxa-ghost

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Registered: 2015-12-09

Posts: 3

Re: Optrimus nvidia on Arch

Did you check the archwiki page for bumblebee ?

It explains how to install and use bumblebee.

Thanks. After my topic, I  was able to make this work. I see, that nvidia is not switch off after close program. So it reduce battery life.
I have to do rmmod nvidia, then tee /proc/acpi/bbswitch <<<OFF
How I automatic this?

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: Optrimus nvidia on Arch

More info required. Brand and model of the Laptop. VGA parts of lspci. grep of journal, X log and/or dmesg regarding bbswitch.

ahtoxa-ghost

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Registered: 2015-12-09

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Re: Optrimus nvidia on Arch

More info required. Brand and model of the Laptop. VGA parts of lspci. grep of journal, X log and/or dmesg regarding bbswitch.

dell vostro 5470
09:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208M [GeForce GT 740M] (rev ff)

dmesg | grep bbswitch
[    2.660337] bbswitch: version 0.8
[    2.660346] bbswitch: Found integrated VGA device 0000:00:02.0: \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0
[    2.660356] bbswitch: Found discrete VGA device 0000:09:00.0: \_SB_.PCI0.RP05.PEGP
[    2.660502] bbswitch: detected an Optimus _DSM function
[    2.660576] bbswitch: disabling discrete graphics
[    2.986540] bbswitch: Succesfully loaded. Discrete card 0000:09:00.0 is off