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axel668

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 168

Bumblebee and Kernel 3.1

Hi !

Bumblebee (Nvidia ION2 discrete graphics support) seems to be broken for me (Asus Eee 1215N) with the update to Kernel 3.1 - the Nvidia module cannot be found anymore. Nouveau seems to work, but Nouveau performance on my device is worse than intregrated Intel 3D, so this is not really an option. Acpi_call has stopped working, too, btw.

I tried to re- install bumblebee and nvidia-utils bumblebee, but to no avail. For now I worked around this by going back to Kernel 3.0.7, but of course this is not a long term solution.

So I'm wondering, is everyone else having the same issues, and, even better, did someone manage to get bumblebee and / or acpi_call running with Kernel 3.1, and how did you do it ?

Thanks, A.

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JonathanArcher

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From: San Francisco

Registered: 2008-11-12

Posts: 108

Re: Bumblebee and Kernel 3.1

Same issues here, got the 1015PN. I noticed that the fan is on almost all the time, so the Nvidia card is always active, only then I realized maybe something is wrong with the switching, so I checked the forums and found your thread. No solution so far for me.

chthon

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Registered: 2010-04-18

Posts: 8

Re: Bumblebee and Kernel 3.1

I've noticed the same thing with the update to kernel version 3.1 on my asus n55sf.

chthon

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Registered: 2010-04-18

Posts: 8

Re: Bumblebee and Kernel 3.1

I've solved it by reinstalling Bumblebee and its dependencies.

This is probably a sledgehammer to crack a nut.  I reckon that as Bumblebee is an AUR package which pulls in other AUR packages to build the custom Nvidia module needed by Bumblebee it isn't quite as well adapted as a core system package to deal with a Kernel upgrade. I suppose the module doesn't get automatically rebuilt against the new kernel sources unless you trigger this -- my (probably naive) solution is a reinstall.

axel668

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 168

Re: Bumblebee and Kernel 3.1

thanks chthon, will try again ... probably they fixed that package in the git

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Jodell

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Registered: 2009-10-09

Posts: 285

Re: Bumblebee and Kernel 3.1

Bumblebee is working fine. The problem is dkms-nvidia, recompile it and it will work.

ubiwahn

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Registered: 2009-01-24

Posts: 13

Re: Bumblebee and Kernel 3.1

Nothing of these helped. This happened also after kernel 3.1 update.

[   1617.27] Starting X using nvidia...                                     
[   1617.28] Waiting for X server to become available...        
[   1617.30] The Bumblebee X server failed to start. Please check /var/log/Xorg.8.log  
[   1617.30] Waiting for orders

and the Xorg.8.log....

[   452.756] (EE) Failed to load module "record" (module does not exist, 0) 
[   452.756] (II) LoadModule: "dri"
[   452.756] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri
[   452.756] (II) UnloadModule: "dri"                           
[   452.756] (II) Unloading dri                                     
[   452.756] (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0)
[   452.756] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"                                                         
[   452.756] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri2                           
[   452.756] (II) UnloadModule: "dri2"                                                      
[   452.756] (II) Unloading dri2
[   452.756] (EE) Failed to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0)
[   452.757] (EE) Failed to load module "fb" (module does not exist, 0)                                           
[   452.757] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the fb module.                                                           
[   452.757] (EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:                                                                                               
[   452.757] no screens found

axel668

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 168

Re: Bumblebee and Kernel 3.1

reinstalling dkms-nvidia (and acpi_call) did the trick for me ... thanks cthon

Last edited by axel668 (2011-11-19 07:52:19)

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samsagax

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Registered: 2011-03-18

Posts: 34

Re: Bumblebee and Kernel 3.1

Just a note on this one:

The dkms package provides a daemon: dkms_autoinstaller. Just put it in the DAEMONS array in rc.conf and you'll never notice a kernel upgrade again. The acpi_call module won't work this way but the dkms-nvidia module will.

ubiwahn

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Registered: 2009-01-24

Posts: 13

Re: Bumblebee and Kernel 3.1

ok,

I added

/usr/lib/xorg/modules

to the section

Section "Files"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia-bumblebee,/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

and it it works (at least glxspheres and gears).

Silverwing

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From: /etc

Registered: 2009-06-23

Posts: 34

Re: Bumblebee and Kernel 3.1

ok,

I added

/usr/lib/xorg/modules

to the section

Section "Files"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia-bumblebee,/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

and it it works (at least glxspheres and gears).

Worked for me too, thanks for posting (tested with wine and StarCraft II)

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