Questions tagged [primus]
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What is the difference between optirun and primusrun?
Fairly self-explanatory question. What is the difference between optirun and primusrun? I stumbled across primusrun today - usually I just use optirun.
Note: This may be useful: https://applicative-games.cppcabrera.com/posts/hybrid-gfx-ubuntu.html
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LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded with Dota 2
When I try to run Dota 2 with primusrun, it gives me this error,
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/aleks/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
malloc: unknown:0:…
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Running Steam and Dota 2 with primus
I wished to run my steam with bumblebee but faced a problem: when I try to run steam using primusrun, I get segfault. Anything else also doesn't run with primus. Here's an example of running primusrun glxspheres64 with…
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Bumblebee in Ubuntu 15.04 (Optirun/Primus) Error
I recently upgraded to 15.04 and after successful installation I noticed that Bumblebee has stopped working. Optirun/primus commands do not detect the gpu anymore (640M LE). Here's what I get when trying to run Steam:
$ primusrun steam
Running Steam…
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No devices found when trying to use NVIDIA GPU
I'm attempting to use Bumblebee for my NVIDIA GPU, and I'm running into errors when running programs.
I'm testing it with a Minecraft client, which actually starts, but crashes after a moment.
$ primusrun java -jar Minecraft.jar
# some normal…
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Bumblebee/primus on 16.04 - Nvidia 650M
I updated from using Bumblebee/primus on 14.04 LTS where everything worked, to a fresh install of 16.04 and it seems like bit of a trainwreck. My machine boots correctly, just not actually using the nvidia card.
I initially tried running…
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bumblebee 64 and 32 bit?
Is it possible to have bumblebee and primus 64 bit and 32 bit both installed at the same time? So that 64bit apps will use the 64bit libs?
If so, how?
When I sudo apt-get install primus:i386, it tells me it's going to remove the 64 bit…
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nvidia black screen at lightdm when switching from intel to nvidia gpu
Nvidia Prime and graphics switching is broken for me.
I can use my Intel graphics fine, but if I try and switch to Nvidia it just shows a black lightdm screen. I know it boots because I can hear the greeter sound.
I tried changing the resolution…
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Dark Souls crashes on launch under PlayOnLinux Wine
After a fair amount of trial and error, I've managed to create a shortcut on my desktop that runs Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition through Steam, through Wine, and edited it to run through primus, like I did here: How to run Skyrim in wine using…
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optirun/primusrun cannot load GPU driver on Ubuntu 15.04
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 15.04. When I run optirun -vv glxinfo, I get:
[ 790.194984] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 790.195278] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.2.1 starting...
[ 790.195292] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
[ …
