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Bumblebee aims to provide support for NVIDIA Optimus laptops to allow using the NVIDIA card for graphics rendering while displaying through the Intel card. It can be installed through repositories by installing packages like bumblebee or bumblebee-nvidia and primus. Alternatively, it can be compiled from source. Post-installation, users must be added to the bumblebee group and optirun can be used to launch applications using the NVIDIA card.

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Bumblebee - Debian Wiki

Bumblebee aims to provide support for NVIDIA Optimus laptops to allow using the NVIDIA card for graphics rendering while displaying through the Intel card. It can be installed through repositories by installing packages like bumblebee or bumblebee-nvidia and primus. Alternatively, it can be compiled from source. Post-installation, users must be added to the bumblebee group and optirun can be used to launch applications using the NVIDIA card.

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BumblebeeDebianWiki

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BumblebeeProject
DaftarIsi
1.BumblebeeProject
1.Installation
1.Fromrepository
2.Compilingfromsource
2.Postinstallation
3.Usage
4.PowerManagement
5.IRC
6.Reportingbugs/problems
1.Commonissues
7.References

Bumblebeeaimstoprovidesupportfor NVIDIAOptimuslaptopsforGNU/Linuxdistributions.UsingBumblebee,youcanuse
yourNVIDIAcardforrenderinggraphicswhichwillbedisplayedusingtheIntelcard.
TheinstructionsonthispageappliestoDebianWheezyandnewer.DebianSqueezeandpriorarenotsupported.
ForSidandJessieusers,BumblebeepackagesareavailabledirectlyfromtheDebianrepositories,headdowntotheInstallation
section.Insummary,it'sassimpleasinstallingbumblebeeorbumblebeenvidia,andprimus.
ForWheezyusers,Bumblebeepackagesareavailablefrom

wheezybackports.Followthestepslistedonthatpagetoadd

backportstoyoursources.list(butmakesurethatyoualsoaddwheezybackports'contribrepositoryaswelltoyoursources.list,
e.g.debhttp://YOURMIRROR.debian.org/debianwheezybackportsmaincontribnonfree),andtheninstall
bumblebeeorbumblebeenvidia,andprimus.RefertotheInstallationsectionbelow.

Installation
Fromrepository
SidandJessieuserscaninstalleverythingdirectlyfromtheofficialrepositories.
Foruserswhowouldliketousethefreenouveaudriver:
sudoaptgetinstallbumblebeeprimus
Foruserswhowouldliketousetheproprietarynvidiadriver(again,requirescontribandnonfreeenabledinyoursources.list):
sudoaptgetinstallbumblebeenvidiaprimus
Usersrunninga64bitsystemwhowanttotakeadvantageofBumblebeewiththeprimusbackendwhenrunning32bitapplications
willalsowanttoinstallprimuslibs:i386.ThisrequiresMultiarchsupport.

sudodpkgaddarchitecturei386&&sudoaptgetupdate&&sudoaptgetinstallbumblebeenvidiaprimusprimusli
Wheezyuserscaninstalleverythingdirectlyfrombackports.
sudoaptgetinstalltwheezybackportsbumblebeeprimus
or
sudoaptgetinstalltwheezybackportsbumblebeenvidiaprimus
or

sudodpkgaddarchitecturei386&&sudoaptgetupdate&&sudoaptgetinstalltwheezybackportsbumblebeenvi

https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee#Installation

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Notewheezybackportsdoesnotcontainthenewerxserverxorgvideointelpackagethatisneededbynewerintelcards.If
youfindyourselfstuckwiththefbdevorvesadriverthenyou'llneedtoupgradetojessieorsid.
Warning:Ifyouchoosetoinstallbumblebeenvidiaandthedependentnvidiadriverpackages,duringpostinst,youwillseea
debconfpromptwarningyouthatyouneedtocreateaxorg.conffileinordertousetheproprietarynvidiadriver.Thispromptonly
appliestononOptimususers,i.e.singleNvidiaGPUsystems.DoNOTallowdebconftocreateaxorg.conffile,anddoNOTrun
nvidiaxconfig!(Thispromptalwaysappearswhenyouinstallnvidiapackagesthroughtherepositories,anditcurrentlydoesnot
detectOptimus/bumblebeeusers.See Openinnvidiasupport/20130816+1:#735049:nvidiasupport:Debconfpromptsare
misleadingforNVIDIAOptimususers: 735049forabriefexplanation.)
Alternatively,Wheezy,Jessie,andSiduserscaninstalleverythingfromanexternalrepository(whichwassetupbeforebumblebee
packagesweremadeavailableintheofficialrepositories).Check http://suwako.nomanga.net/fordetails.

Compilingfromsource
RefertoBumblebee/ManualInstall.Theseinstructionsareprovidedforhistoricalreferenceonlyandarenotrecommendednowthat
packagesareavailablethroughtherepositories.

Postinstallation
Youmustaddyourusertothebumblebeegroupinordertouseoptirun,i.e.
sudoadduser$USERbumblebee
where$USERcorrespondstoyourusername.Don'tforgettologoutandlogbackinforthistotakeeffect.
Ifyouhavesudoconfiguredforyourcurrentuser,i.e.youruserisamemberofthesudogroup,thisstepisnotneeded(the
bumblebeepackagepostinstscripttakescareofaddingsudouserstothebumblebeegroupautomatically).Thisislikelytobethe
reasonwhyBumblebeeworksoutoftheboxinUbuntu,butnotinDebian,withthesameinitialsetup,i.e.Ubuntuhassudoinstalled
bydefaultDebiandoesnot.Toclarify,sudoisnotneededtousebumblebeeitsimplymakesaddingyourusertothebumblebee
groupunnecessary.

Usage
TorunyourapplicationwiththediscreteNVIDIAcardrunintheterminal:
$optirun[options]<application>[applicationparameters]
Example:
$optirunglxgearsinfo
Foralistofoptionsforoptirunopenthemanpagewithmanoptirunorrun:
$optirunhelp

PowerManagement
AprimarygoalofthisprojectistonotonlyenableuseofthediscreteGPUforrendering,butalsotoenablesmartpower
managementofthedGPUwhenit'snotinuse.We'reusingeitherbbswitch(amodule)orvga_switcheroo(kernelmodule,
experimental)todothisinBumblebee.
bbswitchispackagedinDebianandisautomaticallyinstalledwhenchoosingtoinstallbumblebeethroughtherepositories.
SinceBumblebee3.0,thisfeatureisenabledbydefault,using bbswitch.Thisallowautomaticpowermanagement,withoutany
configurationneeds.IfPowerManagementdoesn'tworkonyourlaptop,pleasegotothis PowerManagement(PM)pageand
helptoimproveBumblebee.

IRC
Ifyouhaveanyquestions,feelfreetojoin

#bumblebeeonFreenode.

Reportingbugs/problems
Firstofall:Ifyouhaveanyproblem,pleasereadthearticle
https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee#Installation

Troubleshooting.Ifyourissueisnotsolved,youcanjointhe
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#bumblebeeIRCchanneltoaskforhelp(recommended).Seealso

http://wiki.BumblebeeProject.org/ReportingIssues

Whenaskedtocreateabugreport,runthesudobumblebeebugreportcommandinaterminal

Commonissues
Ifoptirunreturnsthefollowingerror:[ERROR]CannotaccesssecondaryGPUerror:CouldnotloadGPUdriver
Youmustedit/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.confusingyourpreferrededitorasroot,andchange"KernelDriver=nvidia"to
"KernelDriver=nvidiacurrent",thenrestartthebumblebeedaemon,i.e.
sudoservicebumblebeedrestart
(RefertoDebianBug Openinbumblebee/3.2.13,bumblebee/3.2.14:#717687:bumblebee:cannotactivatethediscretenvidia
card: 717687forabriefexplanation.)
Ifoptirunreturnsthefollowingerror:
[ERROR]CannotaccesssecondaryGPUerror:[XORG](EE)Nodevicesdetected
YoumayhavetosettheBusIDmanually,in/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia.TogettheBusID,runlspci|egrep'VGA|3D'ina
terminal.Refertothecommentsinthatfileforfurtherinstructions.
Ifoptirunreturnsthefollowingerror( Openinbumblebee/3.2.15,bumblebee/3.2.17:#756522:bumblebeenvidia:cannotaccess
secondarygpuerror:Permissiondenied: 756522]]):

[ERROR]CannotaccesssecondaryGPUerror:[XORG](EE)/dev/dri/card0:failedtosetDRMinterfaceversion1.4:P
Youhavetoappendthefollowingsectionto/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia:

Section"Screen"
Identifier"DefaultScreen"
Device"DiscreteNvidia"
EndSection

IfoptirunerrorsoutanddmesgreportsthatyourGPUhas"fallenoffthebus"onLinux>=3.10,eitherstickwithanolder

kernel

version(<=3.9),oraddrcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1toyourgrubcommandline(in/etc/default/grub,thenrunupdategrub
andreboot)asaworkaround.
Thisisaknownproblemupstreamandsuspectedtobeanissuewiththeproprietarynvidiadriver.RefertoBumblebeegithub
issue#455.

References
UbuntuWiki: Bumblebee
https://github.com/BumblebeeProject/Bumblebee/wiki/Installandusage
NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
http://BumblebeeProject.org/
http://suwako.nomanga.net/

CategoryHardware

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