[arch-general] bumblebee: only working every other time

[Magnus Therning]

I've finally gotten around to installing and configuring bumblebee.
It's working, sort of.  It's rather weird because it only works every
other time:

~~~~
% cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch 
0000:01:00.0 OFF

% primusrun glxspheres64 
primus: fatal: Bumblebee daemon reported: error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0.  Please

% primusrun glxspheres64
Polygons in scene: 62464
Visual ID of window: 0x20
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GT 750M/PCIe/SSE2
62.103457 frames/sec - 69.307458 Mpixels/sec
~~~~

And so it goes on.  The next run of `primusrun` fails, usually with
the message

~~~~
% primusrun glxspheres64
primus: fatal: Bumblebee daemon reported: error: [XORG] (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
~~~~

the next run works.  And so on.  Very strange behaviour I think.  And
the $SEARCH_ENGINE doesn't really offer any help either, most people
seem to have the problem that it never works, not that it works 50% of
the times :(

Any and all help much appreciated.

/M

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