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Upgrading on Ubuntu
The difficulty on upgrading to Bumblebee 3.0 depends on how you have installed Bumblebee or Ironhide before.
First, if you are using 11.04 Natty or older, add an extra PPA for newer NVIDIA drivers in preparation for the next steps:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
Upgrading is easy, simply refresh your packages list and install Bumblebee:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia
Continue reading at Post-installation.
Upgrading is still easy, but you are recommended to use the ppa:bumblebee/stable PPA. Remove the testing PPA first:
sudo apt-get purge bumblebee acpi-call-dkms
sudo ppa-purge ppa:bumblebee/testing
Continue reading at Installation.
The packages in this PPA do not fully clean up their mess. Start with uninstalling the PPA:
sudo apt-get purge ironhide acpi-call-dkms
sudo ppa-purge ppa:mj-casalogic/ironhide
Clean any remaining mess:
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/ironhide* /usr/bin/ironhide*
sudo rm -f /etc/default/ironhide
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/ironhide
sudo rm -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia
If lspci -d10de: contains (rev ff), reboot once or twice to enable the video
card. Then proceed with Installation.
This is a very old version and a lot settings have already been broken. A reinstallation of the OS is recommended.
There are a lot ways to install from source, whether it is easy to upgrade depends on the chosen options.
This is an very old version. Reinstallation of the OS may be the easiest option.
Run sudo bumblebee-uninstall and proceed with Installation.
From the source directory, run sudo make uninstall. If you copied an init
script manually, remove it too:
sudo rm -f /etc/init/bumblebee.conf
Continue with Installation.
The recommended method to install Bumblebee on Ubuntu is by using its Stable Releases PPA, so install that one, refresh the packages list and install Bumblebee using the nvidia driver:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia
Now proceed with Post-installation.
If you are using 11.10 Oneiric and later and intend to use 32-bit applications on a 64-bit installation, install additional compatibility libraries:
sudo apt-get install virtualgl-libs:i386
Allow yourself to use Bumblebee (replace $USER by your username):
sudo usermod -a -G bumblebee $USER
For blacklisting to take effect, you may also have to update your initial ramdisk:
sudo update-initramfs -u
Re-login or reboot for the changes take effect.
Bumblebee 3.0 does not use cardon or cardoff scripts anymore. You can safely
remove the /etc/bumblebee/cardoff and /etc/bumblebee/cardoff files. All
files ending with .dpkg-backup or similar can also be removed.
There is often no configuration needed to get everything to work. The
configuration files are located at /etc/bumblebee. The optirun program
can also give you suggestions to correct settings in case something is wrong.
Messages are printed to /var/log/syslog. To get all error messages related to
bumblebeed (the Bumblebee Daemon), run:
grep bumblebeed /var/log/syslog