Stretch on Nvidia 960M MSI Gaming Laptop

[InvisibleRasta]

i am not sure if all the drivers work now (had to reinstall like 5 times the whole system)
but this is what inxi shows... imnot sure if i configured everything properly

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Graphics:  Card-1: Intel HD Graphics 530
           Card-2: NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel Resolution: 1920x1080@60.01hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2) GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.6

[stevepusser]

i am not sure if all the drivers work now (had to reinstall like 5 times the whole system)
but this is what inxi shows... imnot sure if i configured everything properly

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Graphics:  Card-1: Intel HD Graphics 530
           Card-2: NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel Resolution: 1920x1080@60.01hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2) GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.6

OK, your Intel card is working, so after installing Bumblebee, it's supposed to switch the 3D GLX rendering to the Nvidia card if you run "optirun inxi -G", like so on my laptop:

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$ optirun inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] driver: nvidia v: 390.87 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.87 

And the Nvidia GPU indicator light on this laptop turns on for a second, then back off like it's supposed to.

But like I said, it seems MSI laptops can need a little more tweaking to get Bumblebee working.

[InvisibleRasta]

yeah i dont know, been trying to configure for a week.. i reinstalled i dont know how many times. i think i am ditching debian for now... too hard to get things running compared to gentoo. hopefully next releases will support a wider range of hardware

[stevepusser]

Well, Debian isn't for you if you won't even try editing one configuration file to start.
I'm sure Gentoo is much easier to set up....

BTW, MSI's also need those tweaks on other distros such as Arch and Ubuntu--I found the info by searching their forums. Good luck!

[InvisibleRasta]

well to be honest i have both arch and gentoo runnin gon that laptop. im not sure waht is making it so hard fro debian... im not used to all the autoconfiguration it does by itself i guess... but something is not working... it should be as easy as installing nvidia-drivers, bumblebee and that config file.. isntead its full of crashes, bugs