Hi Ferry, It should be that when installing bumblebee it should install nvidia, but installing the nvidia drivers should not install bumblebee. Bumblebee is a 'hack' to get dual video cards working until nvidia supports it in their linux drivers. What bumblebee does is it stops the nvidia module (nvidia-331 in this case, hence why modprobing nvidia-331 and restarting x works) from loading at boot time, the kernel loads the intel driver only. Then when you use the optirun or primus commands it then loads the nvidia module and runs that application on the nvidia card. The whole point is not to load the nvidia module at all, until needed, to save power, using bbswitch-dkms package, I use bumblebee on my work laptop and hence why I was able to decipher the issue.
As you can imagine, since we don't have another video card on our setups, X bombs on loading because its configured to used the nvidia driver but bumblebee has stopped it from loading at boot time. I suspect the packages dependency is wrong. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1265570 Title: nvidia-331 update installs bumblebee [xorg-edgers] Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-331” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hi xorg-edgers team, I just got the nvidia-331 update, from nvidia-319, but the update installs bumblebee, however when bumblebee is installed it blacklists the nvidia kernel modules. Which bumblebee is suppossed to do but it breaks xorg if you aren't running an optimus based GPU. Uninstalling bumblebee does not remove the /etc/modprobe.d/bumblebee.conf config file and as such the driver is still blacklisted until you either modify the file to not black list the nvidia-331 module or remove bumblebee.conf. I have an nvidia 560 GTX video card. Tareeq To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-331/+bug/1265570/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
