Comment 3 for bug 1474173

UPDATE:

I finally just reinstalled, and thought based on other solutions in that same thread that installing skype before bumblebee might fix my issues. So, I reinstalled. Installed skype.

Skype works! Sound works! No config options even needed!

Restarted computer.

Pulse is broken.

Skype doesn't work.

Installed Bumblebee. Normally, this fixes my 'brightness' fn key functionality (which doesn't work out of the box on ubuntu, I think it's a nouveau bug). This time, it doesn't (including after a restart).

I try 'optirun skype', the command to run it under the nvidia card on bumblebee, according to yet another answer on that page. I get this output, suggesting, as I thought, that bumblebee isn't running:

    @:/etc/X11$ optirun skype
    [ 869.631200] [ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
    [ 869.631265] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?

this is my log from nvidia:

    kajo@kajo-6530:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep nvidia
    [ 6.225] (==) Matched nvidia as autoconfigured driver 0
    [ 6.225] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
    [ 6.225] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
    [ 6.225] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
    [ 6.225] (II) Unloading nvidia
    [ 6.225] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
    [ 6.231] (==) Matched nvidia as autoconfigured driver 0
    [ 6.231] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
    [ 6.231] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
    [ 6.231] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
    [ 6.231] (II) Unloading nvidia
    [ 6.231] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
    kajo@kajo-6530:~$ grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I still kind of wonder if I install bumblebee first, but then use `optirun skype` for it, and don't change any system options, if I would be fine, but I'm loathe to reinstall my system yet again.