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

[bahha]

@rbeldua
I had a similar issue when I upgraded to the latest kernel
i added this to the very end of xorg.conf.nvidia and it's fixed. I have the same GPU as yours

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "DiscreteNvidia"
EndSection

ps I'm using the driver from the repository . the nvidia proprietary broke my intel driver so I haven't tried it for a long to see if i could fix it.

[rbeldua]

@rbeldua
I had a similar issue when I upgraded to the latest kernel
i added this to the very end of xorg.conf.nvidia and it's fixed. I have the same GPU as yours


ps I'm using the driver from the repository . the nvidia proprietary broke my intel driver so I haven't tried it for a long to see if i could fix it.

Hi bahha,

Thanks for replying, I did as you suggested but still same results. Could you post the procedure how'd you manage to install nvidia? I really wanted to make use of this features in my laptop. There was an instruction you posted which I couldnt follow as the original post #1 was already rewritten which you stated follow post #1 referring to install drivers from the repository.

[bahha]

Hi bahha,

Thanks for replying, I did as you suggested but still same results. Could you post the procedure how'd you manage to install nvidia? I really wanted to make use of this features in my laptop. There was an instruction you posted which I couldnt follow as the original post #1 was already rewritten which you stated follow post #1 referring to install drivers from the repository.

Hi rbeldua

I have already written a post that explains all, but the installation of the repository driver is removed from the first post.

follow this post to remove the one you already installed

here is the list of packages I installed. install them using apt-get install or use synaptic manager .
what step exactly that you didn't get .

bumblebee-nvidia 3.2.1-4~bpo70+1 amd64 NVIDIA Optimus support using the proprietary NVIDIA driver
ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.5.1~bpo70+1kali1 amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii libegl1-nvidia:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 amd64 NVIDIA binary EGL libraries
ii libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 i386 NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 i386 NVIDIA binary OpenGL 32-bit libraries
ii libgles1-nvidia:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 1.x libraries
ii libgles2-nvidia:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 2.x libraries
ii libnvidia-eglcore:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 amd64 NVIDIA binary EGL core libraries
ii libnvidia-ml1:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 amd64 NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) runtime library
ii libnvidia-ml1:i386 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 i386 NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) runtime library
ii nvidia-alternative 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii nvidia-driver 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 amd64 NVIDIA metapackage
ii nvidia-driver-bin 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries
ii nvidia-glx 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 amd64 transition to nvidia-driver
ii nvidia-installer-cleanup 20131102+1~bpo70+1 amd64 cleanup after driver installation with the nvidia-installer
ii nvidia-kernel-common 20131102+1~bpo70+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source
ii nvidia-modprobe 334.16-1kali1 amd64 utility to load NVIDIA kernel modules and create device nodes
ii nvidia-smi 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 i386 NVIDIA System Management Interface
ii nvidia-support 20141201+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files
ii nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1kali1 amd64 Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix - NVIDIA driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia

[Rarity]

bahha, is there any way to install the updated NVIDIA driver with CUDA 6.5 without breaking the Intel graphics card?

I'd rather do one installation instead of install/uninstall/install again.

[bahha]

bahha, is there any way to install the updated NVIDIA driver with CUDA 6.5 without breaking the Intel graphics card?

I'd rather do one installation instead of install/uninstall/install again.

Yes there is, The one I'm pretty sure about is to install the nvidia driver from the repository and add debian sid repository

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib

in order to upgrade the driver to a version that supports
CUDA 6.5 and then remove the repo from source.list .

I'm not sure if the proprietary driver form nvidia website which is posted in the first page of this thread, breaks the Intel. It did break mine a while ago and I fixed it with the repo driver . and never tried it again, as
everything is working fine now .