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kanedito

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Registered: 2021-08-26

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[SOLVED]You've no permission to communicate with the Bumblebee daemon.

I got a hybrid GPU setup - intel iGPU + Nvidia dGPU, drivers are installed but optirun doesn't work without sudo

full optirun output (launched without root):

[ 2104.091364] [ERROR]You've no permission to communicate with the Bumblebee daemon. Try adding yourself to the 'bumblebee' group
[ 2104.091436] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?

groups $USER output:

wheel bumblebee 

nvidia-smi output:

NVIDIA-SMI 470.63.01    Driver Version: 470.63.01    CUDA Version: 11.4     

full bumblebees log (after launching it without sudo):

Aug 26 14:00:16 motoko bumblebeed[3923]: [ 1946.719307] [ERROR]Unloading nvidia driver timed out.
Aug 26 14:00:35 motoko bumblebeed[3923]: [ 1965.721170] [WARN][XORG] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
Aug 26 14:00:35 motoko bumblebeed[3923]: [ 1965.721187] [WARN][XORG] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module mouse
Aug 26 14:00:35 motoko bumblebeed[3923]: [ 1965.721199] [WARN][XORG] (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device for DPI computation.
Aug 26 14:00:35 motoko bumblebeed[3923]: [ 1965.721208] [WARN][XORG] (WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "NoLogo" is not used
Aug 26 14:00:35 motoko bumblebeed[3923]: [ 1965.721217] [WARN][XORG] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module mouse
Aug 26 14:00:35 motoko bumblebeed[3923]: [ 1965.721224] [ERROR][XORG] (EE) PreInit returned 2 for "<default pointer>"
Aug 26 14:00:35 motoko bumblebeed[3923]: [ 1965.721230] [ERROR][XORG] (EE) PreInit returned 2 for "<default keyboard>"
Aug 26 14:00:37 motoko bumblebeed[4853]: modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia_drm is in use.
Aug 26 14:00:40 motoko bumblebeed[3923]: [ 1970.019143] [ERROR]Unloading nvidia driver timed out.

It works just fine with root, and has exactly same log

any help is appreciated.

Last edited by kanedito (2021-08-26 12:16:47)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED]You've no permission to communicate with the Bumblebee daemon.

Weird multiple instance of bumblebeed. How are you starting it? Did you forget to enable it's service? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bumblebee#Installation

FWIW which generation intel and nvidia respectively? If they are new enough you can opt to not use bumblebee but rely on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME# … er_offload without much of a negative impact and potentially less hassle/better perf (if they are older than Turing/Coffee Lake you might still prefer a proper bumblebee setup)

Last edited by V1del (2021-08-26 12:11:43)

kanedito

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Registered: 2021-08-26

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED]You've no permission to communicate with the Bumblebee daemon.

All I had to do is reboot after adding users to the bumblebee group, it works just fine now.

Weird multiple instance of bumblebeed. How are you starting it? Did you forget to enable it's service? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bumblebee#Installation

FWIW which generation intel and nvidia respectively? If they are new enough you can opt to not use bumblebee but rely on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME# … er_offload without much of a negative impact and potentially less hassle/better perf (if they are older than Turing/Coffee Lake you might still prefer a proper bumblebee setup)

btw, in terms of performance, is prime better?

Last edited by kanedito (2021-08-26 12:15:27)

kanedito

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Registered: 2021-08-26

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED]You've no permission to communicate with the Bumblebee daemon.

All I had to do is reboot after adding users to the bumblebee group, it works just fine now.

Weird multiple instance of bumblebeed. How are you starting it? Did you forget to enable it's service? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bumblebee#Installation

FWIW which generation intel and nvidia respectively? If they are new enough you can opt to not use bumblebee but rely on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME# … er_offload without much of a negative impact and potentially less hassle/better perf (if they are older than Turing/Coffee Lake you might still prefer a proper bumblebee setup)

btw, in terms of performance, is prime better?

Just realized that prime-run is an alias, bruh this is way easier than setting up bumblebee.