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Did you do this when Nvidia was still installed?
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With acpi=off machine is not shutting down
It's been like this for 5 mins... This is the second time it's happening with acpi=off

benji wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:54 pm With acpi=off machine is not shutting down
It's been like this for 5 mins...
IMG-20191124-WA0003.jpg
This is the second time it's happening with acpi=off

Wild theory, but have you tried 2011 for the Windows class? It worked for me before.
BTW, are you starting from a new install??

Huckleberry wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:48 pm Did you do this when Nvidia was still installed?
viewtopic.php?f=104&t=54129&start=40#p542353

Yes nvidia was also installed as well bumblebee which was installed from the MX PI

Sparky wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:58 pm

benji wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:54 pm With acpi=off machine is not shutting down
It's been like this for 5 mins...
IMG-20191124-WA0003.jpg
This is the second time it's happening with acpi=off

Wild theory, but have you tried 2011 for the Windows class? It worked for me before.
BTW, are you starting from a new install??

Not a new install...

But am thinking of purging nvidia and retry again in the same install...

Should i try installing nvidia driver driver and bumblebee separately or together..?

To summarize

First time i installed i did it together ...didn't boot

The last time I did it i installed nvidia from the nvidia installer by choosing the option No for the qn - is it a optimum laptop... The driver installation was successful and i was able to boot without any editing

Then i installed bumblebee through MX PI , it wouldn't boot....only boots with acpi=off but there the problem is it is not shutting down...

I will try 2011 before I purge...

I saw a video where single quotes was used. I have no idea if it matters but just bringing it to attention...it was for manjaro
https://youtu.be/7KgX-LgDwQw timestamp 10.14

just follow my link after a fresh install. I will work

Sparky wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:02 pm viewtopic.php?f=104&t=54299

Thank you for the efforts
Will try and update...

First i will purge nvidia and try... and update

In the meantime, I met this on an Antergos site, as a general info / warning about Bumblebee subject :

Warning
There's nvidia-xconfig utility, installed with Bumblebee among NVIDIA tools. Never run it on Optimus computers. It was designed for and works correctly on single-GPU NVIDIA cards only. It doesn't detect hybrid NVIDIA Optimus cards. It's a perfect Bumblebee killer. If executed, it immediately breaks Bumblebee configuration.

Modern computers use ACPI for many functions, including getting the battery charge, shutdown, and suspend. You really need to keep it on, if you want a functional machine. It's best to at least get by with the Intel GPU until you get Bumblebee to work, as I did with my present MSI GP63 8RD. I got the same optirun error message that you're getting on MX 18 for months until I got it to work correctly--and installing virtualgl seems to be a critical part of that. MX NI will install that for you. Your machine should be able to play 4K video easily with just the Intel GPU and va-api--what does "vainfo" say in the terminal about what codecs are supported?

By default, Optimus laptops like yours always use the Intel GPU to drive the display, even with Bumblebee using the Nvidia GPU to do the openGL 3D rendering before handing it back to the Intel for the display. You can see the difference in the last line of the "inxi -G" outputs with or without optirun.

Benji, you should reinstall, do a full update, reboot (because there is a kernel update from Debian in those updates), and then try the MX Nvidia Installer to install the regular driver--not the test repo version. Just installing Bumblebee and Nvidia separately will not install some crucial packages. Copy the ddm.log somewhere safe so it can be looked at later, and reboot.

If the GUI comes back up, check to see optirun works with "inxi -G". If not, run which will try and rebuild the Nvidia driver so you can better see if anything goes wrong. You might want to change the XFCE terminal's Preferences to show a scroll bar and allow unlimited scrollback first.

If this still doesn't get optirun fixed, you may have one of those troublesome laptops that needs boot tweaks or config file editing for Bumblebee to work. Maybe someone with the same model has found out what they are and posted the fix on the web, if you're lucky.

Also, we can't go by what Mint does--they use Nvidia Prime to make the machine use the Nvidia GPU full time, which is hard on battery life. If you want to do that, the Debian wiki had a guide to setting your machine to do the same on the command line the last time I looked...