In the stable branch (352.55) it is possible to install the nvidia driver in such a way that it can be used with bumblebee. But with the newest video driver in the Short Lived Branch version it is no longer possible from what I can tell.

The error message is:

ERROR: The runtime configuration check failed for the library 'libEGL.so.1'
(expected: '/usr/lib64/nvidia-bumblebee/libEGL.so.1', found:
'/lib64/libEGL.so.1'). The most likely reason for this is that
conflicting OpenGL libraries are installed in a location not inspected
by `nvidia-installer`. Please be sure you have uninstalled any
third-party OpenGL and/or third-party graphics driver packages.


You can add "--no-opengl-files" to get past this but then bumblebee/primus doesn't work.

Is there any chance you could make a command line switch to disable this check? I am trying to get this to work in fedora/RHEL Linux and have been making packages for a couple of years. Perhaps it could be called --disable-runtime-configuration-check ? adding --no-rpms or --no-distro-scripts or --no-check-for-alternate-installs did not help.

The arguments I'm giving the installer right now that work with the stable branch are:

./nvidia-installer --accept-license --silent --no-x-check --no-nouveau-check --no-recursion --opengl-libdir=lib64/nvidia-bumblebee --opengl-prefix=/usr --x-library-path=lib64/nvidia-bumblebee --x-prefix=/usr --x-module-path=/usr/lib64/nvidia-bumblebee/xorg/modules --compat32-libdir=lib/nvidia-bumblebee --compat32-prefix=/usr

Thanks for any suggestions.

I'd also be interested in a solution to this problem, trying with the same driver as matt

Do you have a recipe on how to get something up and running, even if its not possible to implement something maintainable from it?

I submitted a patch to that nvidia-installer github that should fix the problem. If anyone would like to try it themselves I rebuilt the installer package for x86_64-361.18. You can get it here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jqk2f3lmb93xb7c/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.18-2.run?dl=0

I changed lines 477-483 of /usr/sbin/bumblebee-nvidia to

if [  -n "$forcedebug" ]; then

          ./nvidia-installer --accept-license --silent --no-x-check --no-nouveau-check --no-symlink-check --no-runtime-check--no-recursion --opengl-libdir=$bumblebee_libdir/nvidia-bumblebee --opengl-prefix=/usr --x-library-path=$bumblebee_libdir/nvidia-bumblebee --x-prefix=/usr --x-module-path=/usr/$bumblebee_libdir/nvidia-bumblebee/xorg/modules $sign_driver $bumblebee_lastarg

          vidcompile=$?

     else

          ./nvidia-installer --accept-license --silent --no-x-check --no-nouveau-check --no-symlink-check --no-runtime-check --no-recursion --opengl-libdir=$bumblebee_libdir/nvidia-bumblebee --opengl-prefix=/usr --x-library-path=$bumblebee_libdir/nvidia-bumblebee --x-prefix=/usr --x-module-path=/usr/$bumblebee_libdir/nvidia-bumblebee/xorg/modules $sign_driver $bumblebee_lastarg > /dev/null 2>&1

          vidcompile=$?

     fi

This issue still continue with version 367.27 for me.
Fedora 24 with bumblebee 3.2.1-12.fc24

Nice work, thank you. I will try this soon.