Disable Nvidia Card Using Bumblebee

donniezazen · 2012-01-08 20:44:38

Hi,

I had Nvidia Optimus disabled through BIOS but it seems their is a neat way to disable Nvidia NVS 4200 in Arch using Bumblebee which is very helpful as I am still setting up my Arch system and use windows and nvidia card. Nvidia card adds another 5 degrees of heat to my system and I would like to disable it when using Arch.

I installed bumblebee and bumblebee-thinkpad_w520_t520_t420 from AUR. I have added bumblebee group. bumblebee and dkms is in daemon category of rc.conf and nvidia and acpi_call is in module section. I get following error when loading nvidia module.

modprobe nvidia
FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/3.1.8-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko): No such device

This is what i have in end of dmesg

[  265.106489] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[  265.106492] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[  265.149082] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
[ 1248.491642] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!

Thanks.

Last edited by donniezazen (2012-01-08 20:47:05)

donniezazen · 2012-01-08 21:02:31

Sorry, Nvidia card works but now bumblebee fails.

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#1 2012-01-08 20:44:38

Disable Nvidia Card Using Bumblebee

#2 2012-01-08 21:02:31

Re: Disable Nvidia Card Using Bumblebee

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