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Fateh

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From: Tigzirt

Registered: 2016-07-11

Posts: 3

Primusrun/Optirun freezes the system

Hi everyone,
Yesterday i installed arch linux ( followed the arch installation guide) on my Acer Aspire E5-511G which has an NVIDIA 810M (optimus), then i followed the wiki for installing bumblebee, but when trying to run glxgears or glxspheres64 preceded by optirun or primusrun the laptop systematically freezes and all i can do is forcing it to shutdown.
here is the output of     lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'

[fateh@CHINOOK ~]$ lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display (rev 0e)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] (rev ff)
[fateh@CHINOOK ~]$ 

and here is the output once i did       sudo echo ON >> /proc/acpi/bbswitch

[fateh@CHINOOK ~]$ lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display (rev 0e)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] (rev a1)
[fateh@CHINOOK ~]$ 

and here is the output of        lspci -v

01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] GeForce 810M
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        Memory at a2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
        I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
        Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
        Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
        Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

Your help is much appreciated.

Fateh

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From: Tigzirt

Registered: 2016-07-11

Posts: 3

Re: Primusrun/Optirun freezes the system

I downloaded manjaro kde and it booted with both graphics cards working as they're supposed to. But once installed, it couldn't boot i  tried nomodeset i915.modeset=0 nouveau.modeset=0 and still couldn't get it to boot so i reverted back to arch linux and copied the xorg files and bumblebee folder from manjaro but still can't get the nvidia card to work.

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 1,977

Re: Primusrun/Optirun freezes the system

I downloaded manjaro kde and it booted with both graphics cards working as they're supposed to. But once installed, it couldn't boot i  tried nomodeset i915.modeset=0 nouveau.modeset=0 and still couldn't get it to boot so i reverted back to arch linux and copied the xorg files and bumblebee folder from manjaro but still can't get the nvidia card to work.

So, are you now running Arch or Manjaro?  Because only Arch is supported here..

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,297

Re: Primusrun/Optirun freezes the system

So, are you now running Arch or Manjaro?  Because only Arch is supported here..

He clearly stated, that he first installed Arch, then tried Manjaro to observe a possible delta, and then installed Arch again, keeping the settings he saw in Manjaro in mind.