Bumblebee complains that nouveau does not exist (using nvidia)?

C. M. Harlequin · 2013-04-26 18:45:05

I'm trying to get bumblebee working with the nvidia driver. Nouveau is not installed and the driver is set to "nvidia" in /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf. For some reason I'm getting the following error:

[ 1435.391816] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)

Here is the full output of optirun -vv glxgears --info :

[  506.838977] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[  506.839573] [INFO]Configured driver: nvidia
[  506.839939] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.2 starting...
[  506.840004] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
[  506.840025] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[  506.840045] [DEBUG] X display: :8
[  506.840064] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/lib/nvidia:/usr/lib32/nvidia
[  506.840082] [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
[  506.840101] [DEBUG] Accel/display bridge: auto
[  506.840120] [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy
[  506.840132] [DEBUG] VGLrun extra options: 
[  506.840143] [DEBUG] Primus LD Path: /usr/lib/primus:/usr/lib32/primus
[  506.840175] [DEBUG]Using auto-detected bridge primus
[  507.012729] [INFO]Response: No - error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)

[  507.012746] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)

[  507.012752] [DEBUG]Socket closed.
[  507.012767] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
[  507.012773] [DEBUG]Killing all remaining processes.

/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf looks like this:

# Configuration file for Bumblebee. Values should **not** be put between quotes

## Server options. Any change made in this section will need a server restart
# to take effect.
[bumblebeed]
# The secondary Xorg server DISPLAY number
VirtualDisplay=:8
# Should the unused Xorg server be kept running? Set this to true if waiting
# for X to be ready is too long and don't need power management at all.
KeepUnusedXServer=false
# The name of the Bumbleblee server group name (GID name)
ServerGroup=bumblebee
# Card power state at exit. Set to false if the card shoud be ON when Bumblebee
# server exits.
TurnCardOffAtExit=false
# The default behavior of '-f' option on optirun. If set to "true", '-f' will
# be ignored.
NoEcoModeOverride=false
# The Driver used by Bumblebee server. If this value is not set (or empty),
# auto-detection is performed. The available drivers are nvidia and nouveau
# (See also the driver-specific sections below)
Driver=nvidia
# Directory with a dummy config file to pass as a -configdir to secondary X
XorgConfDir=/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.d

## Client options. Will take effect on the next optirun executed.
[optirun]
# Acceleration/ rendering bridge, possible values are auto, virtualgl and
# primus.
Bridge=auto
# The method used for VirtualGL to transport frames between X servers.
# Possible values are proxy, jpeg, rgb, xv and yuv.
VGLTransport=proxy
# List of paths which are searched for the primus libGL.so.1 when using
# the primus bridge
PrimusLibraryPath=/usr/lib/primus:/usr/lib32/primus
# Should the program run under optirun even if Bumblebee server or nvidia card
# is not available?
AllowFallbackToIGC=false


# Driver-specific settings are grouped under [driver-NAME]. The sections are
# parsed if the Driver setting in [bumblebeed] is set to NAME (or if auto-
# detection resolves to NAME).
# PMMethod: method to use for saving power by disabling the nvidia card, valid
# values are: auto - automatically detect which PM method to use
#         bbswitch - new in BB 3, recommended if available
#       switcheroo - vga_switcheroo method, use at your own risk
#             none - disable PM completely
# https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Comparison-of-PM-methods

## Section with nvidia driver specific options, only parsed if Driver=nvidia
[driver-nvidia]
# Module name to load, defaults to Driver if empty or unset
KernelDriver=nvidia
PMMethod=auto
# colon-separated path to the nvidia libraries
LibraryPath=/usr/lib/nvidia:/usr/lib32/nvidia
# comma-separated path of the directory containing nvidia_drv.so and the
# default Xorg modules path
XorgModulePath=/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg/,/usr/lib/xorg/modules
XorgConfFile=/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia

## Section with nouveau driver specific options, only parsed if Driver=nouveau
[driver-nouveau]
KernelDriver=nouveau
PMMethod=auto
XorgConfFile=/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nouveau

Any ideas?

Thanks,

H.

wwn · 2013-04-26 20:18:12

click

C. M. Harlequin · 2013-04-26 22:15:52

Awesome, Thanks.

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#1 2013-04-26 18:45:05

Bumblebee complains that nouveau does not exist (using nvidia)?

#2 2013-04-26 20:18:12

Re: Bumblebee complains that nouveau does not exist (using nvidia)?

#3 2013-04-26 22:15:52

Re: Bumblebee complains that nouveau does not exist (using nvidia)?

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