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ksolsim

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Registered: 2012-06-26

Posts: 38

[Solved] - Bumblebee problem after upgrade

After today's upgrade (bbswitch-0.8-134   linux-4.16.8-1 nvidia-396.24-2  nvidia-utils-396.24-1) seems that bumblebee has some problems.

[ksolsim@arch ~]$ optirun --status
Bumblebee status: Ready (3.2.1). X inactive. Discrete video card is off.

and if I try an application, e.g. gedit (or any other application) I got:

[ksolsim@arch ~]$ optirun gedit
[  873.168153] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver
[  873.168195] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

and if I do "optirun --status" again I get:

[ksolsim@arch ~]$ optirun --status
Bumblebee status: Error (3.2.1): Could not load GPU driver

if I restart bumblebee and check bumblebeed I got:

[root@arch ksolsim]$ systemctl restart bumblebeed
[root@arch ksolsim]$ systemctl status bumblebeed
● bumblebeed.service - Bumblebee C Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bumblebeed.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2018-05-11 11:06:18 CEST; 1min 59s ago
 Main PID: 2154 (bumblebeed)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 624.0K
   CGroup: /system.slice/bumblebeed.service
           └─2154 /usr/bin/bumblebeed

mag 11 11:06:18 arch systemd[1]: Stopping Bumblebee C Daemon...
mag 11 11:06:18 arch systemd[1]: Stopped Bumblebee C Daemon.
mag 11 11:06:18 arch systemd[1]: Started Bumblebee C Daemon.
mag 11 11:06:18 arch bumblebeed[2154]: [  979.235682] [INFO]/usr/bin/bumblebeed 3.2.1 started

[ksolsim@arch ~]$ cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
0000:01:00.0 OFF

but if I launch gedit (don't run) I got this:

● bumblebeed.service - Bumblebee C Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bumblebeed.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2018-05-11 11:06:18 CEST; 5min ago
 Main PID: 2154 (bumblebeed)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 828.0K
   CGroup: /system.slice/bumblebeed.service
           └─2154 /usr/bin/bumblebeed

mag 11 11:06:18 arch systemd[1]: Stopping Bumblebee C Daemon...
mag 11 11:06:18 arch systemd[1]: Stopped Bumblebee C Daemon.
mag 11 11:06:18 arch systemd[1]: Started Bumblebee C Daemon.
mag 11 11:06:18 arch bumblebeed[2154]: [  979.235682] [INFO]/usr/bin/bumblebeed 3.2.1 started
mag 11 11:10:32 arch bumblebeed[2154]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device
mag 11 11:10:32 arch bumblebeed[2154]: [ 1233.999336] [ERROR]Module nvidia could not be loaded (timeout?)
mag 11 11:10:32 arch bumblebeed[2154]: [ 1233.999419] [ERROR]Could not load GPU driver

[ksolsim@arch ~]$ cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
0000:01:00.0 OFF

And the only way to turn off the nvida is:

[root@arch ksolsim]$ systemctl restart bumblebeed

Am I the only one with this problem?

Last edited by ksolsim (2018-05-11 11:00:33)

aja

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Registered: 2013-06-27

Posts: 26

Re: [Solved] - Bumblebee problem after upgrade

After the update, i am unable to get GUI, if I uninstall nvidia-396.24-2 package i can login fine.

nycko

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Registered: 2011-08-07

Posts: 15

Re: [Solved] - Bumblebee problem after upgrade

ksolsim: check if your GPU has been dropped to legacy https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topi … -schedule/

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ksolsim

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Registered: 2012-06-26

Posts: 38

Re: [Solved] - Bumblebee problem after upgrade

ksolsim: check if your GPU has been dropped to legacy https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topi … -schedule/

you're right, my gt635m is legacy now, thanks.