Hi Christopher, I see you've been using the .sh installer from nvidia.com which is a kiss of death for Optimus laptops (for the moment). Remove that driver by running `nvidia-uninstall` in recovery mode.
If you do not need to share the external display with the laptop screen, you can start a secondary X server using /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia and by setting the right library paths as well. For convenience, run `optirun sh` and keep it open. Alternatively, edit /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf and set KeepUnusedXServer=true and PMMethod=none (for the driver-nvidia section). After doing that and `sudo restart bumblebeed` you can run `optirun whatever` to start the X server. Then you can run a program on the second display with: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/nvidia-current:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" export DISPLAY=:8 yourprogram here Additional configuration may be necessary in xorg.conf.nvidia like removing UseEDID "false" and AutoAddDevices "false". HTH. Regards, Peter On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Christopher Small <[email protected]>wrote: > Attached is the bumblebee-bugreport output. > > I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 with kernel 3.0.0-15-generic > > The manufacture/model info is as follows: > > Dell Inc. > baseboard-product-name: 032T9K > baseboard-version : A02 > system-manufacturer : Dell Inc. > system-product-name : Latitude E6420 > system-version : 01 > bios-vendor : Dell Inc. > bios-version : A08 > bios-release-date : 10/18/2011 > > > optirun -V output > > optirun (Bumblebee) 3.0 > Copyright (C) 2011 The Bumblebee Project > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > > > Problem description: > > I was able to get bumblebee working on a new work computer that I just > got, but was disappointed when I realized that with this specific > model, the HDMI seems to be piped directly from the NVIDIA card, thus > making it impossible to get the maximal resolution on my secondary > monitor at work. I tried uninstalling bumblebee using my package > tools, and then installed the normal NVIDIA drivers directly. I got a > blank screen and wasn't able to start up X. Removing the xorg.conf > file and rebooting, I was able to get back into X, but the graphics > were not working. I messed around with the config files a bit with one > of our tech support staff, but we weren't able to get that working. > > I figured that I was at least able to get Gnome Shell and Unity > working with the bumblebee setup, and that would be better than > nothing. But when I removed the NVIDIA drivers and tried to install > everything through bumblebee again, I was not able to get Gnome Shell > or Unity back, even though optirun was working from the terminal > (showing the high frame rates that I would expect from the graphics > card). I went through all of the Troubleshooting guide and wasn't able > to find anything that helped. I've tried all sorts of apt-purging, > removing, and autocleaning to make sure that nothing was getting left > behind that shouldn't, but to no avail. > > Part of me is suspicious that this is related to some xorg.conf issue. > Because I had our tech guy helping me, it was unclear which xorg.conf > file was actually working with the first bumblebee install. So some > help about what there should be in `/etc/X11/xorg.conf` (if anything, > since I noticed there is stuff in `/etc/bumblebee`) might be the > ticket. > > > Thanks for your help > > Christopher Small > Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center > Computational Biology Program > [email protected] > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~bumblebee > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~bumblebee > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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