On Tuesday 12 June 2012 09:49:08 jason peel wrote: > Hi Lekensteyn, > > Thanks for reply AND CORRECTION DOH! > > So some further thoughts, > > As I get a black screen NOT blank screen but do have a cursor could it be > some sort of option switch I need to put in place like which Xdisplay to > connect to? Reading what you have put I am not sure but if x failed to > start, would I be able to see a cursor? /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and the previous Xorg.0.log.old file) would be a good point to start debugging.
> The system knows that the Nvidia is there as lshw shows it. I will have a > play around and see what else I can come up with. Well yes, the hardware is detected, but this does not mean that X can use it now. That's why Bumblebee is needed in first place. > I am a total noob when it comes to programming but thats why I would like > this working as I start a course in openGL this September. OpenGL works with Bumblebee (I still need the proprietary nvidia drivers for OpenGL 3 things though, ugh.) > This is not important so please I only ask in case some one has experience. > > Regards > > Jason > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Lekensteyn <lekenst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 June 2012 09:14:21 jason peel wrote: > > > hi All, > > > > > > Quick question that shows my complete lack of understanding and thus > > > huge > > > gratitude to those who make these things work! > > > > > > I got Bubblebee working sweet as on Kubuntu thank you all! > > > > "Bumblebee" ;) > > > > > Tried it last night on an Enlightenment based system and got only a > > > > cursor > > > > > and black screen. Is this something to do with the window manager? is > > > there something that points to gdm or what have you that E17 does not > > > > use? > > I don't know E17, but it sounds like that the nvidia driver is not > > deconfigured > > (such that the intel driver + mesa would be used) and thereby the X server > > fails to start. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux Post to : hybrid-graphics-linux@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp