BUMBLEBEED(1)

🌈 NAME 🌈

bumblebeed — bumblebee daemon. Hi bestie 💖 this is the BUMBLEBEED(1) manual page, and it's literally all about the daemon life.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bumblebeed [OPTION]...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so picture this: it's a daemon for controlling the discrete nVidia video card on Optimus systems. That's the whole vibe. 🎀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -D, --daemon — run daemonized (backgrounded). Implies --use-syslog ✨
• -x, --xconf FILE — the xorg.conf file to use 🫶
• --xconfdir DIR — the xorg.conf.d directory to use 🌸
• -g, --group GROUP — allow GROUP to communicate with the daemon 👑
• --driver DRIVER — the driver to use for the nvidia card. Valid values are nouveau and nvidia. This option also affects the driver section that will be used from the configuration file 🔥
• -m, --module-path PATH — ModulePath to use for Xorg (only useful for nvidia) ⭐
• -k, --driver-module NAME — name of kernel module to be loaded if different from the driver 🧚
• --pm-method METHOD — method to use for disabling the discrete video card. Valid values are auto, bbswitch, switcheroo and none. auto selects a sensible method, bbswitch (kernel module) is available for nvidia and nouveau drivers, switcheroo (vga_switcheroo) is usually for nouveau and radeon drivers, and none disables PM completely 💀
• -q, --quiet, --silent — suppresses all logging messages 🙈
• -v, --verbose — increase the verbosity level of log messages. It can be specified up to two times (or five if --quiet is used) 📈
• --debug — show all logging messages by setting the verbosity level to the maximum 🚨
• -C, --config FILE — retrieve settings for Bumblebee from FILE 💜
• -d, --display VDISPLAY — start the Bumblebee X server on VDISPLAY. Do not confuse this option with the DISPLAY environment variable 💅
• -l, --ldpath PATH — libraries like nvidia_drv.so are searched in PATH (useful for the nvidia driver) 🍓
• -s, --socket FILENAME — use FILENAME for communication with the daemon 🔌
• -h, --help — display this help and exit 🫶
• --version — output version information and exit ✨

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

• Report bugs on <http://Bumblebee-Project.org/issues> 😭
• Bumblebee homepage: <http://Bumblebee-Project.org/> 🌐

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2011 The Bumblebee Project License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. ⚠️

Mwah 💋 source/version is Bumblebee 3.2.1, date is October 2026, and yes bestie this is the BUMBLEBEED(1) manual — bye! 🫶🌈