Running a Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3.
AMD Radeon Graphics
Nvidia Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)

Bumblebee won't start. It says it can't connect.
Checking system logs indicates that it won't start because an onboard graphics card can't be connected.

If I run optirun glxgears it won't connect.
I created my own command that I named primus-run and IT connects to the graphics card just fine.

[10975.024192] [ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
[10975.024248] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?

$ primus-run glxinfo -B | grep renderer
OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2

command I created in /usr/bin:

__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia "$@"

Nouveau has been blacklisted and script has been written to run bumblebee on start up.

I have been trying to figure this out for the last year.

I decided to try something as a troubleshooting step. I installed Arch Linux on a virtual box and was able to run it absolutely fine with no issue.

So, this is definitely embarassing as I know I messed up a setting somewhere as I just can't figure out which setting.

Any help would be great.

Bumblebee is the old way to use Nvidia Optimus technology. It supposes all the necessary packages from the Bumblebee Slackbuilds.

The new way is directly with the Nvidia driver which now support their own technology.

It seems you have the new way working with your machine (the line :
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia glxinfo).
It's not Bumblebee and the optirun binary which comes from Bumblebee will probably won't work and collide with the new way.

See :
https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:ha...nvidia_optimus

For Bumblebee-SlackBuilds The last patch was written by me 3 years ago. Latest versions of Nvidia drivers is not tested.