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dynos01

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Registered: 2016-10-22

Posts: 2

Can't use optirun/primusrun as non-root user

Hello guys,
I newly re-installed arch and find my Nvidia GT-720M not working with bumblebee, but works with root.

[dyn@dyn-laptop ~]$ optirun glxgears -info
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  154 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  24 (X_GLXCreateNewContext)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  24
  Current serial number in output stream:  25

But if I use sudo or just switch to root, optirun/primusrun works perfectly.
Any ideas?

Best regards

Last edited by dynos01 (2016-10-22 10:36:26)

jaergenoth

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Registered: 2015-01-16

Posts: 85

Re: Can't use optirun/primusrun as non-root user

Did you add yourself to the group "bumblebee"? As is told in the instructions here.

gpasswd -a <your_username_here> bumblebee

dynos01

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Registered: 2016-10-22

Posts: 2

Re: Can't use optirun/primusrun as non-root user

Did you add yourself to the group "bumblebee"? As is told in the instructions here.

gpasswd -a <your_username_here> bumblebee

Yes, I exactly followed the wiki page when I installed bumblebee

jaergenoth

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Registered: 2015-01-16

Posts: 85

Re: Can't use optirun/primusrun as non-root user

Here's a thread with a similar problem: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=195435

OP there solved the problem by installing correct packages, but I'm not sure if this applies in your situtation, as you can run optirun as root.