[SOLVED] Setup bumblebee after migration from arch

06 May 2019, 03:37:31

The optimus system, while useful in terms of energy consumption, is usually a pain for us linux users.

After migrating from arch, whenever I tried using optirun or primusrun, I got the following:

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[  8825.104] (EE) /dev/dri/card0: failed to set DRM interface version 1.4: Permission denied

and

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lsmod | grep nouveau

reported that the nouveau driver had been loaded instead of the proprietary nvidia one.

The solution is simple: inside /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf, add (or update)

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Driver=nvidia

in the

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[bumblebeed]

section.

Hope that will help someone else in the future.