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MatzeP11

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Registered: 2016-07-19

Posts: 5

optirun has no visual output (with bumblebee & bbswitch)

As it seems optirun runs applications on my laptop, however I don't see any content displayed. Meaning if I were to run some CLI applications everything is fine, but with

 optirun -v -b primus glxspheres64 -info 

I don't see any window displayed, however I get the following output:

[  597.448243] [INFO]Configured driver: nvidia
[  597.985959] [INFO]Response: Yes. X is active.

[  597.985982] [INFO]Running application using primus. 

While running I get this feedback from bbswitch. (The card is OFF usally)

 cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
0000:01:00.0 ON
 

And after some time my cooling fans start. From this I conclude that the application is indeed running on the following GPU:

lspci -k | grep -A 2 "3D"         
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] (rev a2)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 06e4
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia

My $DISPLAY variable is set to ":0", which is why I tried setting the VirtualDisplay Variable in the  bumblebee.config respectively. Nothing changed after reboot.

The following didn't work either:

 optirun -v -d :0 -b primus glxspheres64 -info 
optirun -v --no-xorg -b primus glxspheres64 -info 

Thank you in advance!