[Solved] - Any luck with bumblebee?

[rocky7x]

Hi guys,

Seems that bumblebee is broken in 16.04. Any luck with making it work in Neon or Maui?

Cheers...

[AJSlye]

You'll need to wait for the 4.0 update to bumblebee.
Have you tried using nvidia-prime instead of bumblebee?

[rocky7x]

You'll need to wait for the 4.0 update to bumblebee.
Have you tried using nvidia-prime instead of bumblebee?

Yes, nvidia-prime works OK, but that's not really the same use scenario. OK, I thought as well that we have to wait for 4.0.

[rocky7x]

HA, after throwing the towel in, I still made 1 effort to check the Arch wiki regarding bumblebee and it seems I found a solution They really have an EXCELLENT wiki. Seems that the intel related xorg.conf is interfering with bumblebee. So these are the steps that finally got my optirun glxgears running ;-)
1. install driver nvidia-367 from graphics ppa (long-lived branch) and do prime-select intel
2. install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia and primus from bumblebee/testing repo (add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/testing)
3. adapt /etc/modprobe.d/bumblebee.conf and /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf according to this article http://www.webupd8.org/2016/08/how-to-in...lebee.html
4. check if PCI BusID in /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia is OK (check with lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D')
5. and the magic step that did it: move /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel to some other backup location :-) /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d must be empty
6. reboot
7. try optirun glxgears - for me WORKS and NO SCREEN TEARING
8. primusrun glxgears RUNS ALSO