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Klapseninsasse 3 May, 2015 @ 2:18pm
Bumblebee and trying to play on the TV
Hello everyone,

I've posted this in about one million forums, got tons of answers, found tons of tutorials on google, but I just can't get this to run, so I hope one of you guys has an idea.

I recently bought a TV and wanted to plug in my laptop, but the TV just doesn't get recognized. xrandr, arandr, KDE Display Settings, they all just give out 0 devices plugged in, except for the laptop screen, of course.

I think that the HDMI port is wired to the the Nvidia card, so this might be the problem. And I'm starting to lose hope that this will ever work.

My setup is:
openSUSE 13.2 with KDE
GTX 870m with bumblebee and nvidia

Bumblebee seems to run correctly. Played some games with primusrun and it wasn't a problem. glxspheres also didn't produce any errors.

In one forum I was told to completely deinstall bumblebee and just use only the nvidia drivers. Is that my only hope?

Anyhow, I really have no clue with all the bumblebee stuff. I hope someoen can shed some light on my.

Greetings,
The Jellyfish
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Dusk of Oolacile 3 May, 2015 @ 4:30pm 
I'd not only try the official nvidia-prime but also a temp install of windows. Just to see if the hardware is okay and capable of doing what you want it to do.
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Klapseninsasse 4 May, 2015 @ 3:37am 
I have Win 8.1 installed and the TV works without a problem on it. I'd like to try out nvidia-prime, but it appears that it's not available for openSUSE as of yet.
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Dusk of Oolacile 4 May, 2015 @ 4:22am 
if you install the binary package from nvidia.com, it should be included, I think.
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Klapseninsasse 4 May, 2015 @ 4:57am 
Cool, thank you. I'll try to do this and hope I don't fail miserably.
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Klapseninsasse 4 May, 2015 @ 7:18am 
Ok, did this. Deinstalled bumblebee and the nvidia drivers, installed the binary packages from nvidia.com, now the TV works perfectly. Only problem is, the laptop screen doesn't work anymore. Same problem, just in reverse.
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Dusk of Oolacile 4 May, 2015 @ 9:16am 
I'd install with the TV not plugged in, then I'd try to activate it in the nvidia control panel, or whatever nvidia has for settings. Maybe you can set it up without uninstalling, check out the multimonitor options. There was an article about it on Phoronix a few weeks ago, you can check it out, maybe it helps.
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