Bug#756522: bumblebee-nvidia: cannot access secondary gpu - error: Permission denied

[Vincent Cheng]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:48 AM, JEBE <jbernon at free.fr> wrote:
> Package: bumblebee
> Version: 3.2.1-7
> Followup-For: Bug #756522
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I installed bumblebee and primus packages, not bumblebee-nvidia. But I get the
> exact same issues and logs than described here.
[...]
> My bumblebee.conf has the line "driver= ". I understand that only
> "xorg.conf.nouveau" is active. Is that correct?

Yes, if you only have either nvidia or nouveau installed, not both,
bumblebee will detect that (if you have both installed, bumblebee will
default to nvidia).

[...]
> [  6143.889] (EE) [drm] KMS not enabled
> [  6143.889] (EE) No devices detected.

Hmm...do you have nomodeset or nouveau.modeset=0 specified somewhere
(e.g. on your grub command line)? Is your GPU supported by nouveau?

Regards,
Vincent