(Guide) Installing Nvidia + Bumblebee + CUDA for Optimus enabled Laptops

[in10se]

I need some help I have been trying to fix this for the longest finally got Bumblebee installed and ti run smoothly. The problem is when I get to the CUDA installation it does not ask me about Samples but instead during the instalation asks me only about the direcroty and if I want to create a symbolic file.

The next command will have no errors if all went well
modprobe nvidia-uvm       ////       I GET THIS WITH NO ERRORS ...

Now to make the CUDA samples and confirm it works! This make will take a little while...     /// CANNOT FIND SAMPLES ANYWHERE. REINSTALLED CUDA AND NOTHING...
cd ~/NVIDIA_CUDA-5.5_Samples/NVIDIA_CUDA-5.5_Samples/
make

I unistalled by using purge nvidia-*
then uninstalled bumblebee
and started the process again ...

Everything goes fine but still cant get to install the samples I get the following

 Driver:   Not Selected
Toolkit:  Installed in /usr/local/cuda-6.5
Samples:  Not Supported

Thanks,

[staticn0de]

I need some help I have been trying to fix this for the longest finally got Bumblebee installed and ti run smoothly. The problem is when I get to the CUDA installation it does not ask me about Samples but instead during the instalation asks me only about the direcroty and if I want to create a symbolic file.

The next command will have no errors if all went well
modprobe nvidia-uvm       ////       I GET THIS WITH NO ERRORS ...

Now to make the CUDA samples and confirm it works! This make will take a little while...     /// CANNOT FIND SAMPLES ANYWHERE. REINSTALLED CUDA AND NOTHING...
cd ~/NVIDIA_CUDA-5.5_Samples/NVIDIA_CUDA-5.5_Samples/
make

I unistalled by using purge nvidia-*
then uninstalled bumblebee
and started the process again ...

Everything goes fine but still cant get to install the samples I get the following

 Driver:   Not Selected
Toolkit:  Installed in /usr/local/cuda-6.5
Samples:  Not Supported

Thanks,

Hi there,

I see a couple of problems with your setup.

First:

The next command will have no errors if all went well
modprobe nvidia-uvm       ////       I GET THIS WITH NO ERRORS ...

Now to make the CUDA samples and confirm it works! This make will take a little while...     /// CANNOT FIND SAMPLES ANYWHERE. REINSTALLED CUDA AND NOTHING...
cd ~/NVIDIA_CUDA-5.5_Samples/NVIDIA_CUDA-5.5_Samples/
make

You are following the first guide, not post 25 as recommended.

Second

Toolkit:  Installed in /usr/local/cuda-6.5

You are installing the bleeding edge cuda 6.5 (which is not bad) but you have not altered the commands in the guide to suit the new directories.

Two guides are in this thread. The guide starting at post 2 will install CUDA 5.5 and the nvidia drivers from the wheezy repo.

The guide starting at post 25 (the one which should be followed) will install NVIDIA 340.24 and CUDA 6.

Follow the guide at post 25 and if you decide to mix and match versions and parts of guides, you will need to amend the commands entered to match.

[warrenBufferzz]

Thank you very much staticn0de for your time to make this post, everything went smooth and right now im all set up!!

and thanks to reintakura for that solution!

[Filip0913]

Hi,
I have the following problem: when I enter this last command

optirun glxspheres64

, my screen goes totally black and my nvidia vgas start to run on full speed (vents go on full throttle) and after 20s my laptop shuts down. I suppose my hardware causes the peoblem, I have 3VGAs: the integrated intel hd4400, and 2 nvidia gt750M.
I know that this problem was mention here, but I did everything what staticn0de recomend, but nothing change.
dmesg has to long output. What you need exactly? I also erase comments from files for the same reason.

/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf

[bumblebeed]
VirtualDisplay=:8
KeepUnusedXServer=false
ServerGroup=bumblebee
TurnCardOffAtExit=false
NoEcoModeOverride=false
Driver=nvidia
XorgConfDir=/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.d

[optirun]
Bridge=auto
VGLTransport=proxy
PrimusLibraryPath=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/primus:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/primus:/usr/lib/primus:/usr/lib32/primus
AllowFallbackToIGC=false

[driver-nvidia]
KernelDriver=nvidia
PMMethod=auto
LibraryPath=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nvidia:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/nvidia:/usr/lib/nvidia
XorgModulePath=/usr/lib/nvidia,/usr/lib/xorg/modules
XorgConfFile=/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia

[driver-nouveau]
KernelDriver=nouveau
PMMethod=auto
XorgConfFile=/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nouveau

/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "Layout0"
    Option      "AutoAddDevices" "false"
    Option      "AutoAddGPU" "false"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "DiscreteNvidia"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BusID "PCI:01:00:0"
    BusID "PCI:07:00:0"

    Option "ProbeAllGpus" "false"

    Option "NoLogo" "true"
    Option "UseEDID" "false"
    Option "UseDisplayDevice" "none"
    Option "SLI" "AA"
EndSection

lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'

root@kali:~# lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fe4 (rev a1)
07:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fe4 (rev a1)

modinfo nvidia

root@kali:~# modinfo nvidia
filename:       /lib/modules/3.14-kali1-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko
alias:          char-major-195-*
version:        340.46
supported:      external
license:        NVIDIA
alias:          pci:v000010DEd00000E00sv*sd*bc04sc80i00*
alias:          pci:v000010DEd00000AA3sv*sd*bc0Bsc40i00*
alias:          pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc02i00*
alias:          pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc00i00*
depends:        drm,i2c-core
vermagic:       3.14-kali1-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions 
parm:           NVreg_Mobile:int
parm:           NVreg_ResmanDebugLevel:int
parm:           NVreg_RmLogonRC:int
parm:           NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles:int
parm:           NVreg_DeviceFileUID:int
parm:           NVreg_DeviceFileGID:int
parm:           NVreg_DeviceFileMode:int
parm:           NVreg_RemapLimit:int
parm:           NVreg_UpdateMemoryTypes:int
parm:           NVreg_InitializeSystemMemoryAllocations:int
parm:           NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable:int
parm:           NVreg_MapRegistersEarly:int
parm:           NVreg_RegisterForACPIEvents:int
parm:           NVreg_CheckPCIConfigSpace:int
parm:           NVreg_EnablePCIeGen3:int
parm:           NVreg_EnableMSI:int
parm:           NVreg_MemoryPoolSize:int
parm:           NVreg_RegistryDwords:charp
parm:           NVreg_RmMsg:charp
parm:           NVreg_AssignGpus:charp

modinfo nvidia-uvm

root@kali:~# modinfo nvidia-uvm
filename:       /lib/modules/3.14-kali1-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-uvm.ko
supported:      external
license:        MIT
depends:        nvidia
vermagic:       3.14-kali1-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions

lsmod

root@kali:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_utf8               12456  1 
nls_cp437              16553  1 
vfat                   17185  1 
fat                    57965  1 vfat
nouveau              1053347  0 
ttm                    69667  1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper         39998  1 nouveau
drm                   240557  3 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
i2c_algo_bit           12751  1 nouveau
nfnetlink_log          17241  0 
nfnetlink              12989  1 nfnetlink_log
binfmt_misc            16949  1 
loop                   26605  0 
dm_crypt               22731  0 
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     45004  1 
arc4                   12543  2 
iwldvm                130998  0 
mac80211              488308  1 iwldvm
snd_hda_codec_realtek    54360  1 
snd_hda_codec_generic    59079  1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
uvcvideo               78910  0 
iTCO_wdt               12831  0 
videobuf2_vmalloc      12816  1 uvcvideo
iTCO_vendor_support    12649  1 iTCO_wdt
videobuf2_memops       12519  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_core         35348  1 uvcvideo
videodev              122088  2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
usb_storage            52037  1 
media                  18303  2 uvcvideo,videodev
joydev                 17108  0 
x86_pkg_temp_thermal    12965  0 
intel_powerclamp       17159  0 
coretemp               12854  0 
kvm_intel             138949  0 
mxm_wmi                12515  1 nouveau
kvm                   404503  1 kvm_intel
snd_hda_intel          39656  5 
iwlwifi                87784  1 iwldvm
btusb                  25619  0 
snd_hda_codec          99921  4 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel
bluetooth             243618  2 btusb
psmouse                86464  0 
snd_hwdep              13148  1 snd_hda_codec
ideapad_laptop         17499  0 
sparse_keymap          12760  1 ideapad_laptop
cfg80211              436618  3 iwlwifi,mac80211,iwldvm
6lowpan_iphc           16588  1 bluetooth
snd_pcm                88538  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
serio_raw              12849  0 
lpc_ich                20768  0 
snd_timer              26606  1 snd_pcm
i2c_i801               16963  0 
mfd_core               12601  1 lpc_ich
evdev                  17489  9 
snd                    61039  18 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
i2c_core               24265  6 drm,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,nouveau,videodev
mei_me                 13446  0 
rfkill                 18902  4 cfg80211,ideapad_laptop,bluetooth
soundcore              13026  1 snd
mei                    50039  1 mei_me
ac                     12678  0 
battery                13101  0 
wmi                    17339  2 mxm_wmi,nouveau
video                  17804  1 nouveau
processor              28221  0 
button                 12944  1 nouveau
ext4                  489943  1 
crc16                  12343  2 ext4,bluetooth
mbcache                13082  1 ext4
jbd2                   86788  1 ext4
dm_mod                 89276  1 dm_crypt
hid_generic            12393  0 
usbhid                 44481  0 
hid                    94062  2 hid_generic,usbhid
sg                     30043  0 
sd_mod                 44346  5 
crc_t10dif             12431  1 sd_mod
crct10dif_pclmul       13348  1 
crct10dif_common       12356  2 crct10dif_pclmul,crc_t10dif
crc32_pclmul           12915  0 
crc32c_intel           21809  0 
ghash_clmulni_intel    12978  0 
aesni_intel           151423  0 
aes_x86_64             16719  1 aesni_intel
lrw                    12757  1 aesni_intel
gf128mul               12970  1 lrw
glue_helper            12690  1 aesni_intel
ablk_helper            12572  1 aesni_intel
cryptd                 14560  3 ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel,ablk_helper
xhci_hcd              111830  0 
ahci                   29195  2 
libahci                27103  1 ahci
alx                    36175  0 
mdio                   12599  1 alx
ehci_pci               12472  0 
ehci_hcd               48517  1 ehci_pci
libata                169163  2 ahci,libahci
scsi_mod              186841  4 sg,usb_storage,libata,sd_mod
usbcore               166472  8 btusb,uvcvideo,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ehci_pci,usbhid,xhci_hcd
usb_common             12440  1 usbcore
thermal                17468  0 
thermal_sys            27685  5 video,intel_powerclamp,thermal,processor,x86_pkg_temp_thermal

cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch

root@kali:~# cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
cat: /proc/acpi/bbswitch: No such file or directory

echo $PATH

root@kali:~# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/VirtualGL/bin

find 2> /dev/null / -name nvidia*.ko

root@kali:~# find 2> /dev/null / -name nvidia*.ko
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/340.46/3.14-kali1-amd64/x86_64/module/nvidia.ko
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/340.46/3.14-kali1-amd64/x86_64/module/nvidia-uvm.ko
/lib/modules/3.14-kali1-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/3.14-kali1-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-uvm.ko

Thak you for help