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

[nekromantik]

I installed the repo driver and it's working fine

so in original guide you installed nvidia-current and put nvidia-current in bumblee.conf?

[bahha]

so in original guide you installed nvidia-current and put nvidia-current in bumblee.conf?

yes, I also installed cuda from the repo . and everything is working fine .

 optirun pyrit list_cores
Pyrit 0.4.1-dev (svn r308) (C) 2008-2011 Lukas Lueg http://pyrit.googlecode.com
This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3+

The following cores seem available...
#1:  'CUDA-Device #1 'GeForce GT 740M''
#2:  'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)'
#3:  'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)'
#4:  'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)'
#5:  'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)'
#6:  'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)'
#7:  'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)'
#8:  'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)'

[Davide3i]

yes, I also installed cuda from the repo . and everything is working fine .

Hi.
May I ask if you can post the changes you made in the original guide to install everything flawlessly?

[bahha]

Hi.
May I ask if you can post the changes you made in the original guide to install everything flawlessly?

here

apt-get install nvidia-glx
apt-get install bumblebee-nvidia primus
apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit nvidia-opencl-icd

nano +22 /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf

Make it read:
Driver=nvidia-current

Save and close

then edit below to add your specific BusID
you can check your id by this coammand : lspci | egrep '3D'

nano /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia

Section "Device"
Identifier "DiscreteNvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BusID "PCI:03:00:0"

[Davide3i]

here

apt-get install nvidia-glx
apt-get install bumblebee-nvidia primus
apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit nvidia-opencl-icd

nano +22 /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf

Make it read:
Driver=nvidia-current

Save and close

then edit below to add your specific BusID
you can check your id by this coammand : lspci | egrep '3D'

nano /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia

Section "Device"
Identifier "DiscreteNvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BusID "PCI:03:00:0"

I can't manage to install nvidia-glx. Basically you didn't download the nvidia-driver from their website, following the installation procedure in the OP guide, but let Terminal install it for you with "apt-get install bumblebee-nvidia primus", right?

[Cricco95]

I can't manage to install nvidia-glx. Basically you didn't download the nvidia-driver from their website, following the installation procedure in the OP guide, but let Terminal install it for you with "apt-get install bumblebee-nvidia primus", right?

I have the same problem. Following the OP guide, when I try to do an apt-get install nvidia-glx I receive an error and I can't install it

[bahha]

I can't manage to install nvidia-glx. Basically you didn't download the nvidia-driver from their website, following the installation procedure in the OP guide, but let Terminal install it for you with "apt-get install bumblebee-nvidia primus", right?

nvidia-glx won't install.

install this and try

apt-get install nvidia-driver

if not working add this too

apt-get install nvidia-alternative

I have both packages installed
during install if it ever asks you to configure anything ignore it .

make sure you have these source in your source.list

deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security sana/updates main contrib non-free

[Davide3i]

nvidia-glx won't install.

install this and try

apt-get install nvidia-driver

if not working add this too

apt-get install nvidia-alternative

I have both packages installed
during install if it ever asks you to configure anything ignore it .

make sure you have these source in your source.list

deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security sana/updates main contrib non-free

After some struggling, I've finally managed to make it work. Thank you.