As mentioned your hardware might not work with bbswitch and might instead work with the kernel PM. Remove bbswitch and set AlwaysUnloadKernelDriver=true in bumblebee's config file.
On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 22:22 -0400, Danfun360 wrote: > Well, the good news is, the GLX alternative bug with legacy-390xx > appears > to have been fixed. > > The bad news is that the main bug of bumblebeed failing to load at > startup > for whatever reason is still there. Have any suggestions for > troubleshooting? (Also, since this bug affects both the latest > nvidia-driver (410) as well as nvidia-driver-legacy-390xx, I'd prefer > trying to work with 410) > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 5:48 PM Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> > wrote: > > > That's not the case anymore in buster, 390xx works fine with other > > packages > > > > On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, 21:03 Danfun360 <danfun...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > I already tried legacy-390xx. As I said before, there doesn't > > > seem to be > > > equivalents of nvidia-cuda-toolkit and nvidia-cuda-dev that don't > > > try to > > > force the latest nvidia drivers. Also, bumblebee doesn't > > > recognize the > > > legacy-390xx drivers as a GLX alternative (I get an error stating > > > such). > > > > > > If I was to remove bbswitch, would I be unable to use PRIMUS? > > > Also how > > > would I go about with my VGA Passthrough setup? > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 4:12 PM Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Control: severity -1 minor > > > > > > > > Try switching to legacy-390xx, or removing bbswitch and using > > > > the > > > > kernel's power management, with these laptops it's always a > > > > dice roll > > > > on what will actually work > > > > > > > > On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 14:19 -0400, Danfun360 wrote: > > > > > The graphics card in my laptop is an Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050. > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 7:20 AM Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@ > > > > > gmail.co > > > > > m> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > What Nvidia card does your laptop have? > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, 03:42 Daniel O. <danfun...@gmail.com > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Package: bumblebee-nvidia > > > > > > > Version: 3.2.1-20 > > > > > > > Severity: grave > > > > > > > Justification: renders package unusable > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dear Maintainer, I write this bug report because this > > > > > > > bumblebee/bumblebeed > > > > > > > doesn't work as it should. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > * What led up to the situation? Bumblebee used to work > > > > > > > correctly when > > > > > > > the > > > > > > > nvidia driver was at 390. A few days ago it was upgraded > > > > > > > to 410. > > > > > > > At the > > > > > > > time I > > > > > > > was running Debian Buster (testing as of this writing). > > > > > > > That's > > > > > > > where > > > > > > > things > > > > > > > started to get problematic. It appears that the nvidia > > > > > > > module > > > > > > > couldn't be > > > > > > > unloaded or something. bbswitch reported as "ON" without > > > > > > > optirun, > > > > > > > and as > > > > > > > the > > > > > > > nvidia drivers were considered in use, I was unable to > > > > > > > unbind the > > > > > > > nvidia > > > > > > > driver > > > > > > > for VGA Passthrough as I had been doing before. > > > > > > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was > > > > > > > effective (or > > > > > > > ineffective)? I uninstalled every bumblebee and > > > > > > > nvidia > > > > > > > package. I > > > > > > > then > > > > > > > reinstalled everything. No luck. I then uninstalled > > > > > > > everything > > > > > > > and went > > > > > > > for the > > > > > > > legacy 390 package. Unfortunately there were problems > > > > > > > with that: > > > > > > > nvidia-cuba- > > > > > > > toolkit and nvidia-cuba-dev require the latest nvidia > > > > > > > driver > > > > > > > installed. > > > > > > > On top > > > > > > > of that, bumblebee refused to see the legacy 390 drivers > > > > > > > as a glx > > > > > > > alternative. > > > > > > > I uninstalled all the nvidia stuff again, switched to > > > > > > > Debian Sid, > > > > > > > and > > > > > > > installed > > > > > > > the latest nvidia drivers again (they were slightly more > > > > > > > up to > > > > > > > date on > > > > > > > Sid than > > > > > > > in Buster). Still no change. > > > > > > > * What was the outcome of this action? Bumblebee > > > > > > > should be > > > > > > > able to > > > > > > > blacklist > > > > > > > the nvidia driver and isolate it from the operating > > > > > > > system in > > > > > > > such a way > > > > > > > that > > > > > > > the system would run on the integrated GPU and run the > > > > > > > discrete > > > > > > > GPU for > > > > > > > applications when called for. > > > > > > > * What outcome did you expect instead? The nvidia > > > > > > > driver is > > > > > > > not > > > > > > > blacklisted, > > > > > > > and the discrete GPU is in control. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On a different note, I tried posting a bug report > > > > > > > upstream. It > > > > > > > has some > > > > > > > information this report might not have (vice versa is > > > > > > > definitely > > > > > > > the case, > > > > > > > unfortunately). It can be found at https://github.com/Bum > > > > > > > blebee- > > > > > > > Project/Bumblebee/issues/1023 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- System Information: > > > > > > > Debian Release: buster/sid > > > > > > > APT prefers unstable > > > > > > > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > > > > > > > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > > > > > > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > > > > > > > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, > > > > > > > TAINT_OOT_MODULE, > > > > > > > TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE > > > > > > > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > > > > > > > (charmap=UTF-8), > > > > > > > LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > > > > > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > > > > > > > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > > > > > > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Versions of packages bumblebee-nvidia depends on: > > > > > > > ii bumblebee 3.2.1-20 > > > > > > > ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.9.1 > > > > > > > ii nvidia-driver 410.104-1 > > > > > > > ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 410.104-1 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > bumblebee-nvidia recommends no packages. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > bumblebee-nvidia suggests no packages. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- no debconf information > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > pkg-nvidia-devel mailing list > > > > > > > pkg-nvidia-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net > > > > > > > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ > > > > > > > pkg-nvid > > > > > > > ia-devel > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Luca Boccassi > > > > -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
