How to Install Bumblebee and Latest Nvidia Drivers on Wily Werewolf Ubuntu 15.10
The procedure for
Installing Bumblebee and nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 15.10 is a bit
different from what we have been using in the past. Hence the new
post.
I have faced issue
with using the xorg-edgers ppa and the graphics-drivers ppa together.
All works well except after a couple of reboots the Xorg Breaks and I
can't recover it no matter what. So I have decided to re-write this
post to that my readers are aware of the changes and can enjoy a
smooth experiences with Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.10.
I have had my Xorg Crash and become totally not recoverable if I use both the Xorg-Edgers ppa and the Graphics-Drivers ppa.
My recommendation is to use only Graphics-Drivers ppa with Wily Werewolf Ubuntu 15.10
Without further
delay, Here it is.
Run the following
Commands in Sequence
1) sudo apt-get
update && sudo apt-get upgrade
2) sudo apt-get
dist-upgrade
3) sudo
apt-add-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
4) sudo apt-get
update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
5) sudo apt-get
install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia primus nvidia-settings nvidia-355
Once this is
Installed, Below files need to be edited as shown.
1) sudo gedit
/etc/modules
add
i915
bbswitch
2) sudo gedit
/etc/modprobe.d/bumblebee.conf
Check for this
# 355
blacklist nvidia-355
blacklist
nvidia-355-updates
blacklist
nvidia-experimental-355
# Workaround to make
sure nvidia-uvm is removed as well
remove nvidia rmmod nvidia-uvm nvidia
Ensure that this section shown above
exists.
3) sudo gedit
/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
replace
nvidia-current
with
nvidia-355 (Or whatever version of Driver is latest as per the Graphics Driver PPA)
Also Change
Driver = nvidia on
Line Number 22
7) sudo gpasswd -a
$USER bumblebee
8) sudo systemctl
enable bumblebeed
9) Reboot
10) Install mesa
utils if not already installed
sudo apt-get
install mesa-utils
Check using
11) primusrun glxinfo |
grep OpenGL
You shoud see a
result like this.
primusrun glxinfo |
grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor
string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer
string: GeForce 820M/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile
version string: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 355.11
OpenGL core profile
shading language version string: 4.40 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
OpenGL core profile
context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile
profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile
extensions:
OpenGL version
string: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 355.11
OpenGL shading
language version string: 4.50 NVIDIA
OpenGL context
flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask:
(none)
OpenGL extensions:
This means all is well and your bumblebee setup is working.
If you would like to see if bumblebee is actually working, try this
lsmod | grep bbswitch
You should see something similar to this
bbswitch 16384 0
The number in second column is Random and will vary.
also
if you run.
cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
You should see something like this
0000:03:00.0 OFF
This means that your Nvidia Card is OFF by default. Once you run an application using primusrun or optirun commands, while the program you run is running you can see that the OFF change to ON Like below.
primusrun glxgears
this runs the glxgears program using your Nvidia Card via bumblebee.
Open another terminal and run.
cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
You should see something like
0000:03:00.0 ON
Now Close the application which you launched via bumblebee earlier, in this Case glxgears.
again run
cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
You should see something like this.
0000:03:00.0 OFF
If all is going like I have mentioned then you can be sure that bumblebee is configured correctly.
Please leave your feedback in the comments section.
Thanks for your time!
