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legendik

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Registered: 2013-05-29

Posts: 3

GeForce GT 555M and bumlebee

Hi all!

I'm new here. So first of all, thanks for great distro! I've switched to arch two days ago from Sabayon, and it's just great!

But i have one problem, and i don't know how to solve it.

I have laptop Dell XPS L702X, which have two GPU's:

# lspci | grep VGA

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF106M [GeForce GT 555M] (rev ff)

i've installed these packages via pacman: nvidia (319.23-1), bbswitch (0.7-1), bumblebee (3.2.1-3), intel-dri (9.1.3-1) - and maybe more, i'm not sure :-)

My Xorg.conf looks like:

# cat /etc/X11/Xorg.conf

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "keyboard-layout"
        Driver "evdev"
        MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
        Option "XkbLayout"  "cz, us"
        Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle, grp_led:scroll"
EndSection

In directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ i have only these files:

# ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

00-keyboard.conf  10-quirks.conf    50-synaptics.conf
10-evdev.conf     50-joystick.conf  50-vmmouse.conf

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

#cat /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf 

# 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=:0
# 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

And file /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia looks like:

cat /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia 

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "Layout0"
    Option      "AutoAddDevices" "false"
    Option      "AutoAddGPU" "false"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "DiscreteNvidia"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"

#   If the X server does not automatically detect your VGA device,
#   you can manually set it here.
#   To get the BusID prop, run `lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'` and input the data
#   as you see in the commented example.
#   This Setting may be needed in some platforms with more than one
#   nvidia card, which may confuse the proprietary driver (e.g.,
#   trying to take ownership of the wrong device). Also needed on Ubuntu 13.04.
#   BusID "PCI:01:00:0"

#   Setting ProbeAllGpus to false prevents the new proprietary driver
#   instance spawned to try to control the integrated graphics card,
#   which is already being managed outside bumblebee.
#   This option doesn't hurt and it is required on platforms running
#   more than one nvidia graphics card with the proprietary driver.
#   (E.g. Macbook Pro pre-2010 with nVidia 9400M + 9600M GT).
#   If this option is not set, the new Xorg may blacken the screen and
#   render it unusable (unless you have some way to run killall Xorg).
    Option "ProbeAllGpus" "false"

    Option "NoLogo" "true"
    Option "UseEDID" "false"
    Option "UseDisplayDevice" "none"
EndSection

But the command optirun returns this error message:

# optirun vlc

[ 2451.776237] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) 

[ 2451.776328] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

Can you please help me, how to access the secondary (and better) GPU? I can't looking on 25GB mkv movie with integrated GPU

Thanks for helping, and sorry for my english, i'm from Czech

hadrons123

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From: chennai

Registered: 2011-10-07

Posts: 1,249

Re: GeForce GT 555M and bumlebee

Did you try these?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bu … leshooting

Svenstaro

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-11-19

Posts: 393

Re: GeForce GT 555M and bumlebee

Are you in the bumblebee group?

legendik

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Registered: 2013-05-29

Posts: 3

Re: GeForce GT 555M and bumlebee

Thanks for replies

I'm in group bumblebee

#groups legend

wheel http network bumblebee vboxusers users

And yes, the GitHub page was first result on this error message. But i don't have file etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf or /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf.

Files under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ does not contains the line Driver "nvidia" // or nouveau etc

//EDIT

I've tried to add file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf with following section:

# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nvidiagpu1"
    Driver "nvidia"
    BusID "PCI:01:0:0" // and changing the BUS ID
EndSection

But then the X wont start with message "No screens found"

Last edited by legendik (2013-05-30 09:36:53)

sano

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Registered: 2012-02-11

Posts: 114

Re: GeForce GT 555M and bumlebee

Remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf and rename /etc/X11/Xorg.conf to /etc/X11/Xorg.conf.bkp and try again. You can move your keyboard configuration from Xorg.conf to the adequate section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf.

legendik

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Registered: 2013-05-29

Posts: 3

Re: GeForce GT 555M and bumlebee

Keyboard configuration moved to evdev.conf, removed default Xorg.conf and removed 20-intel.conf. But still nothing.
I've tried add BusID in /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia, but without change

dhabgood3

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Registered: 2013-05-30

Posts: 3

Re: GeForce GT 555M and bumlebee

You could try to get the optimus card to work directly from the nvidia drivers avoiding bumblebee altogether with xrandr.  Try this how to below:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L … ndr14.html

you will need to also add the following packages: xorg-video-nvidia, xorg-xrandr, xorg-modesetting and xorg-video-intel.  In order get the xorg-video-intel package to install I did a pacman -Sd xorg-video-intel which bypasses the dependancy checks and forces the package to install.

xpt

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Registered: 2012-10-23

Posts: 60

Re: GeForce GT 555M and bumlebee

i have the same problem