Nvidia Bumblebee optirun not working any more

[Marric]

If bumblebee was working fine up to now and you get this error message when running optirun

[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver
[ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

then edit the bumblebee configuration file

sudo gedit /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf

change

Driver=
to
Driver=nvidia

and

KernelDriver=nvidia-current
to
KernelDriver=nvidia

[metalf8801]

This didn't work for me until after I rebooted... I know that might be an obvious step for most people but I didn't think of it right away

[Marric]

you can restart the bumblebee daemon in order to assume the changes

sudo restart bumblebeed

[obviator]

Awesome - this worked great for me on Ubuntu 12.04. I've got an Asus laptop with optimus, which randomly stopped working after I upgraded the Nvidia drivers. This helped me get up & running again. Thanks!

[jmath]

you can restart the bumblebee daemon in order to assume the changes

sudo restart bumblebeed

I have tried this but I've got the following error:

restart: Unknown instance:

Any clue?

[Holmen]

Thank you! This drived me crazy.

Works in Ubuntu 12.10.

[herczigem]

If bumblebee was working fine up to now and you get this error message when running optirun

[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver
[ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

then edit the bumblebee configuration file

sudo gedit /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf

change

Driver=
to
Driver=nvidia

and

KernelDriver=nvidia-current
to
KernelDriver=nvidia

Hello! I modify same the bumblebbe.conf file, and restart the system, but it doesn't work.

This message give me the system:
[ 96.155131] [ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
[ 96.155208] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?

[Tieuc]

Hi everybody!

I came back in the LInux World yesterday with Ubuntu, I installed Bumblebee right after and I had the same message than Marric, then I changed the "driver=" and the "KernelDriver=", but know I've got the same problem than herczigem!
Do you have a solution?


Just for information I installed the 12.10 version, and a couple of months ago, with the same laptop, but with the 12.04 everthing was fine.
Thanks

Matthieu

12/25: I installed all the last update! And evrything is fine! So my problem is solved! Merry Christmas!

[SabriCan]

Hi everybody!

I came back in the LInux World yesterday with Ubuntu, I installed Bumblebee right after and I had the same message than Marric, then I changed the "driver=" and the "KernelDriver=", but know I've got the same problem than herczigem!
Do you have a solution?


Just for information I installed the 12.10 version, and a couple of months ago, with the same laptop, but with the 12.04 everthing was fine.
Thanks

Matthieu

12/25: I installed all the last update! And evrything is fine! So my problem is solved! Merry Christmas!

I did the same with Tieuc including last updates. But I still have the same problem than herczigem.

[ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
[ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?

And sudo restart bumblebeed doesn't work for me. I got:

restart: Unknown instance:

I changed "KernelDriver=nvidia-current" to "KernelDriver=nvidia" but I found nvidia-current package when I searched in synaptic package manager. I'm not sure what driver I'm using. I run this lastly:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

EDIT: I installed Ubuntu 12.10 and bumblebee works fine now. Thanks..

[metalf8801]

Today I'm running Ubuntu Studio 12.04 with the 3.2.0-38-lowlatency-pae kernel and I wasn't able to run anything using optirun without getting an error message that included but was not limited to the following: Could not connect to bumblebee daemon
I was able to resolve this by going back into /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf and changing

KernelDriver=nvidia
back to what it was originally
KernelDriver=nvidia-current

and then restarting my laptop

Also I did NOT change left Driver=nvidia back to Drive=