On 18 October 2015 at 20:43, Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote: > On 2015-10-18 20:34, Elijah Rum wrote: >> Since the last update of nvidia-driver in debian sid repos it's unable to >> unload the nvidia kernel module via modprobe -r. Though bumblebee runs >> exactly that command when the application run on nvidia card is finished. >> Meanwhile rmmod works, and it is possible to unload nvidia by hand and >> restart the bumblebee service to get nvidia card turned off. > > Looks like we need a separate profile for the glx alternative to support > bumblebee with the new nvidia driver configuration scheme. > > Is the following correct for nvidia+bumblebee: > > * the nvidia kernel module is available > * but it is *not* autoloaded > * nouveau is blacklisted > * Xorg is *not* configured to use nvidia_drv.so
All correct. > With the mesa-diverted profile you use, the nvidia module is *not* > available any more (i.e. known to modprobe as 'nvidia' - therefore > modprobe -r does not work) and nouveau is not blacklisted (unless > bumblebee comes with its own blacklist). Bumblebee does its own blacklisting, which includes nouveau [1]. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-nvidia/bumblebee.git/tree/debian/bumblebee.conf
