Quote Originally Posted by Steffen025 View Post
Hi Static,

first things first: Sorry for my english, im German ^^

thx a lot for your How-To!

I have a Lenovo Y500 Ideapad with 2 GT650m SLI, 16GB RAM, Intel i7.
I have several Problems getting my GPU's to run properly with the Nvidia Driver.
Is there any way you can help me - i mean to chat with you over Whatsapp or something like that, sendind you Images from my Screen and having a real time help?
I am willing to pay for your efforts.

As I checked my Hardware in Windows there are only the both Nvidia GPU's listed, no Intel onboard GPU.
The Cards support Optimus technology, following the Nvidia Website, but do i really need Optimus, if there is no Intel onboard GPU?

Following your How-To step by step i get stuck after editing the Bumblebee .conf, i added both BusID's of the GPU's and the SLI Option

Section "Device"
Identifier "DiscreteNvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BusID "PCI:01:00:0"
BusID "PCI:02:00:0"
and activating the SLI in the Options.

After restarting bumblebee and stopping the GDM3 Service i get a black Screen with blinking cursor -> no way to get to TTY1 with "ALT CTRL F1", nor any other Hotkeys working.
I worked around that booting in the Recovery Mode in Console.

In Recovery mode its no Problem stopping the GDM3 and installing Nvidia.
After rebooting i tried the optirun glxspheres64 -> Error.

I also tried an other How-To without Bumblebee:
http://www.blackmoreops.com/2014/03/...er-kali-linux/

-> eveything worked fine (yeah, i edited the Xorg.conf with both BusID's and SLI and MultiGPU Option) until step 6
In booting process after the boot information "GDM3 start", my screens gets Black, flashing one time for a second, getting black again, then both GT650m's Fans getting full thrust (airflow getting very hot) and after 30 secs or something the Laptopn shuts down - no way to get to TTY1 or anything -> no way to have any influence after the GDM3 starts.

After reading many many Hours in Forums, HOW-To's, the Nvidia Support section, and the official Nvidia Documentation i have no Clue what to do.

Would be nice to get an answer from You.
Hi there,

I don't have SLI in my laptop so this is not somehting I have worked with. Another forum member had issues with SLI and I replied with some information I found and they never came back, it was either very useful or not useful at all so give it a try.

First, post the output of the following so I can tell you if you need optimus at all

Code:
lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'
This is the post I replied about SLI

https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...ll=1#post35604

If you don't have the onboard intel you do not need optimus. If it's just enabling SLI, it should be as *easy* as installing NVIDIA, enabling SLI in XORG and rebooting. Lets see how we go.

If you don't need optimus and installed bumblebee, it would do an awesome job at killing your graphics.