GeForce GTX 880M Bumblebee

[vnavah]

Hi!
First post here, I have a laptop with optimus hybrid card (GTX 880M) and I’ve not been able to get it to work, I followed this guide to the letter and I don’t know what went wrong

Bumblebee for NVIDIA Optimus (older systems)

Here’s the inxi -Ga output

Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
    vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen5.75
    process: Intel 45nm built: 2010 ports: active: eDP-1
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:0416 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK104M [GeForce GTX 880M] vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK
    driver: N/A alternate: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia non-free: 470.xx+
    status: legacy-active (EOL~2023/24) arch: Kepler process: TSMC 28nm
    built: 2012-18 pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63 link-max: gen: 6
    speed: 64 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1198 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Acer BisonCam NB Pro type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-10:7
    chip-ID: 5986:055c class-ID: 0e02 serial: 200901010001
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP1 model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x15b1 built: 2012
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 143 gamma: 1.2 size: 340x190mm (13.39x7.48")
    diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.2 direct render: Yes

Here’s my optirun --status

Bumblebee status: Ready (3.2.1). X inactive. Discrete video card is off.

nvidia-installer-check is not recognized as a command

hope someone can help.

[waterbuffalo]

Welcome to the forum @vnavah!

[manuel]

Welcome aboard!

There’s a typo in the linked instructions. To fully upgrade the system, run command

yay   # not yay -Syua

You might want to try a CLI program nvidia-inst.
See

nvidia-inst -h

for some help, and search for nvidia-inst related posts here for more help.

Install nvidia gpu in Apollo

As mentioned above, the nouveau driver should work. Use that if you don’t need the additional features of the Nvidia driver. Try nvidia-inst: sudo pacman -Syu nvidia-inst # install the package nvidia-inst -h # get some help nvidia-inst -t # test it without changing anything and show the results here. If everything seems OK, then run # This step is needed for 470 and 390 series drivers, adds a new package source to /etc/pacman.conf nvidia-inst --legacyrepo # Ins…

[vnavah]

Hi, thanks for the help, I read through the whole post, and for what I understand those instructions work for nvidia graphics card, but from what I read in these forums it may wont work for an optimus nvidia hybrid card and also my card is a bit old, like 7 years old , so from what Ive been reading, I might need to configure the 390 driver with Bumblebee, Im I right?

[manuel]

Looks like Nvidia 390 series driver is the one to use:

$ nvidia-driver-supported-branches 1198
NVIDIA card id: 1198
The nvidia-dkms version: 515.48.07-2
Series 390: supported (Nvidia: 390.151)

More info: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix

This is supported by nvidia-inst. It should be able to install bumblebee as well, simply look at the options (especially --bumblebee) of nvidia-inst.

[vnavah]

So, I got it working, I just ended up using optimus switch.
I started following this guide
https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/optimus-switch-another-solution-for-optimus-laptops/7593
Arfter runing

pacman -Q | grep nvidia

from the first steps, I fount out that even with the nvidia propietary install, no drivers where installed, neither the nvidia-installer-dkms.
So I started by runing

sudo pacman -S nvidia-installer-dkms

and runing the dkms by force

sudo nvidia-installer-dkms --force

On step 8, I didnt restart, I run

pacman -Q | grep nvidia

again, and manually remove all entries but
nvidia-installer-common 1.3-1
nvidia-installer-db 2.5.8-1
nvidia-installer-dkms 3.5-1
did a reboot and ended up with ​ “Reached target Graphical Interface” a blinking cursor so I started the system on TTY 3 and went ahead and installed
nvidia-390xx 390.151-1
nvidia-390xx-dkms 390.151-2
nvidia-390xx-utils 390.151-2
and thats it, I got it working.
Thanks to all for the help!!!