NVIDIA/Bumblebee Problem

beaker23 · 2014-08-03 21:26:11

I'm pretty new to Linux and am trying to get the optimus Nvidia card in my laptop to work. I've followed the Arch wiki to install bumblebee with the nvidia driver and am having the following problems, here are some outputs about my system.

modprobe nvidia

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device

modprobe -vv nvidia

modprobe: INFO: custom logging function 0x40a020 registered
insmod /lib/modules/3.15.7-1-ARCH/extramodules/nvidia.ko.gz 
modprobe: INFO: Failed to insert module '/lib/modules/3.15.7-1-ARCH/extramodules/nvidia.ko.gz': No such device
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device
modprobe: INFO: context 0xdd3330 released

insmod /lib/modules/3.15.7-1-ARCH/extramodules/nvidia.ko.gz

insmod: ERROR: could not insert module /lib/modules/3.15.7-1-ARCH/extramodules/nvidia.ko.gz: No such device

lspci -nnvk | grep -A10 "VGA\|NVIDIA"

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0416] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer Device [1558:3501]
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 49
	Memory at f7400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
	Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
	Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
	Kernel driver in use: i915
--
01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 860M] [10de:1392] (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
	!!! Unknown header type 7f
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia

With regard to bumblebee I always have to start it as root, not sure if that's normal but here's what I get if I try to start it from a user prompt.

$bumblebeed

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'bbswitch': Operation not permitted
[   54.920917] [ERROR]Module bbswitch could not be loaded (timeout?)
[   54.920929] [WARN]No switching method available. The dedicated card will always be on.
[   54.921691] [ERROR]Could not set the GID of bumblebee: Operation not permitted

When I run it as root I get.

#bumblebeed

[   93.540034] [INFO]bumblebeed 3.2.1 started

Trying.

optirun glxgears

/usr/bin/vglrun: line 241: exec: glxgears: not found

Trying to run anything with optirun it fails and I get the following errors.

[ 1658.015113] [WARN][XORG] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/".
[ 1658.015124] [WARN][XORG] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/".
[ 1658.015128] [ERROR][XORG] (EE) Error systemd-logind returned paused fd for drm node
[ 1658.015130] [WARN][XORG] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[ 1658.015135] [WARN][XORG] (WW) Unresolved symbol: fbGetGCPrivateKey
[ 1658.015140] [WARN][XORG] (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device for DPI computation.
[ 1658.015143] [ERROR][XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initiate mode change.
[ 1658.015144] [ERROR][XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to complete mode change
[ 1658.015160] [ERROR][XORG] (EE) Error systemd-logind returned paused fd for drm node
[ 1658.563351] [ERROR][XORG] (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

Any help appreciated

beaker23 · 2014-08-03 22:19:46

So I logged out, logged in, installed mesa-demos package to get glxgears and now it works.

Optirun glxgears runs the application using the discrete card and then it switches back over to the integrated card when I close it.

I still have the above indications if I run the modprobe, insmod and lspci commands that I posted above.

Last edited by beaker23 (2014-08-03 22:20:10)

SavinShetty · 2016-07-04 18:40:54

beaker23 wrote:

So I logged out, logged in, installed mesa-demos package to get glxgears and now it works.
Optirun glxgears runs the application using the discrete card and then it switches back over to the integrated card when I close it.
I still have the above indications if I run the modprobe, insmod and lspci commands that I posted above.

same problem but this didnt work for me

WorMzy · 2016-07-05 10:30:36

Please don't necrobump, SavinShetty.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing.

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#1 2014-08-03 21:26:11

NVIDIA/Bumblebee Problem

#2 2014-08-03 22:19:46

Re: NVIDIA/Bumblebee Problem

#3 2016-07-04 18:40:54

Re: NVIDIA/Bumblebee Problem

#4 2016-07-05 10:30:36

Re: NVIDIA/Bumblebee Problem

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