Greetings, I moved my Thinkpad W520 from Linux Mint to Manjaro a month ago. Managed to get bumblebee + nvidia-390 working without too much fuss. “optirun glxgears” worked. Went for the default update today (~1gb worth of downloads). Now “optirun glxgears” gets me the familiar error The Bumblebee da…

optirun -b none nvidia-settings -c :8 https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Configure_Graphics_Cards

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Thank you @cscs ! Here is the detail as advised by that post. In the meantime I discovered that sudo bumblebeed followed by sudo optirun glxgears works fine so it appears the packages are somewhat OK but the user/group assignments are messed somewhere. (The following is AFTER running sudo optirun glx…

Mk. But what about your errors trying to install/reinstall drivers? Well . first lets see what mhwd sees: mhwd -l && mhwd -li Then, assuming you still need/want the 390 bumblebee driver lets try to reinstall it: sudo mhwd -f -i pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee (and please copy any …

I had tried the reinstall from the Device Manager GUI, it reported conflicts while trying to uninstall Linux57-bbswitch…these appear below. Since I had turned the nvidia card ON permanently (bb complained about no switching method being available upon running sudo bumblebeed) I rebooted so as to ent…

Mk… for the reinstall lets just remove those first. sudo pacman -R linux-latest-bbswitch linux-latest-nvidia-390xx sudo mhwd -f -i pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee (also pinging @Ste74 because this is an interesting issue)

Ahh…so those linux-latest-blah packages were indeed playing spoilsport. After the above removal and reinstallation of nvidia-390 bumblebee works again! I’m glad this is an “interesting issue” :slight_smile:. Thank you so much for the assistance. A couple of minor irritants which I noticed upon the…

Thanks for the ref - that worked. Appreciate all the great support!!

Now there appears to be a new problem - not new in the world of Bumblebee, but new for me as this issue was not preset before the last update to Manjaro. The issue is this: optirun works fine till I suspend and resume from suspend, after that BB is unable to load the nvidia driver and optirun fails.…

Please check after that happens the output of command sudo modprobe nvidia If it shows it failed that usually means a mismatch with kernel and the built module (IE double-check which kernel you are on and force rebuild the modules for it … avoid 5.8 … actually with older bumblebee you probably wa…

Oh well…the problem went away after installing another 500MB worth of updates that was pending since the weekend. modprobe nvidia now shows no error and things behave after recovering from suspend. Thanks for the tip @cscs . I’m just wondering whether all this means I should just run the linux-54 LTS…

Latest Manjaro update breaks bumblebee

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