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piie

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Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 33

Bumblebee - primus bridge resulting in black screen / window

Hi,

after recent update, I get only black window, when using:

optirun -b primus glxspheres64

But following command shows the typical glxspheres64:

optirun glxspheres64

I tried a lot combinations of following variables:

VGL_READBACK=pbo  VGLTransport=jpeg  vblank_mode=0

Does anybody experience same issue?

Last edited by piie (2014-03-15 16:37:47)

piie

Member

Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 33

Re: Bumblebee - primus bridge resulting in black screen / window

I downgraded following packages, then it works again:

pacman -U mesa-libgl-10.0.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz  mesa-10.0.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz  intel-dri-10.0.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

neowinx

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Registered: 2013-03-07

Posts: 2

Re: Bumblebee - primus bridge resulting in black screen / window

Well, I have this same problem with the new version of those libraries, and after reading this:

https://github.com/amonakov/primus/issues/125

and this:

https://github.com/amonakov/primus/issues/133

I tried setting the PRIMUS_UPLOAD variable to 1 like this:

PRIMUS_UPLOAD=1 optirun -b primus glxgears

and it worked for me. Dunno if its always the case, but you could give it a try.

Svenstaro

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-11-19

Posts: 391

Re: Bumblebee - primus bridge resulting in black screen / window

Downgrading is not a fix. This is a recent upstream problem. See https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39250 and https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75724

Basically, what you can do it test git and report results.

nierro

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From: Milan, Italy

Registered: 2011-09-02

Posts: 849

Re: Bumblebee - primus bridge resulting in black screen / window

Confirmed that PRIMUS_UPLOAD=1 worked on my brother's laptop. Thanks neowinx!

neoneye

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Registered: 2014-03-31

Posts: 1

Re: Bumblebee - primus bridge resulting in black screen / window

This was helpful, thank you neowinx. I will be bug reporting later, I added "export PRIMUS_UPLOAD=1" to my /etc/profile and everything seems to work properly for now.