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jting

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Registered: 2014-10-24

Posts: 11

Lenovo E570p (S5) GTX 1050Ti - struggling to get GPU working

Hi,

Just spent about half a day trying to get the graphics card on this laptop to work, to no avail. To work backwards, the last thing I've run is

optirun glxgears64

which gave me the error:

[ 1173.296097] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not enable discrete graphics card
[ 1173.296164] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

.

primusrun, with similar results:

primusrun glxgears

primus: fatal: Bumblebee daemon reported: error: Could not enable discrete graphics card

I've included some relevant info below about my current setup, and will include extra info as needed (pretty stumped after half a day of troubleshooting, I'm sure I've left out a bunch of things).

modprobing devices:

sudo modprobe nouveau

No output

sudo modprobe nvidia

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device

Related devices:

lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591b (rev 04)
02:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] (rev ff)

noveau blacklisted:

cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

blacklist nouveau

Related installed packages:

pacman -Q | egrep 'bumblebee|nvidia'

bumblebee 3.2.1-15
lib32-nvidia-utils 381.22-1
nvidia 381.22-3
nvidia-utils 381.22-1

Default grub params;

cat /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1 acpi=force

Bumblebee nvidia config:

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

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "DiscreteNvidia"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BusID       "PCI:02:00:0"
    Option "NoLogo" "true"
    Option "UseEDID" "false"
    Option "UseDisplayDevice" "none"
EndSection

EDIT1: More info, also included in a later post.
Checking the bumblebee service's status:

sudo systemctl status bumblebeed.service

bumblebeed.service - Bumblebee C Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bumblebeed.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2017-07-05 14:27:57 AEST; 20h ago
 Main PID: 8853 (bumblebeed)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/bumblebeed.service
           └─8853 /usr/bin/bumblebeed

Jul 06 10:23:20 machine bumblebeed[8853]: [16222.734001] [ERROR]Could not load GPU driver
Jul 06 10:24:20 machine bumblebeed[8853]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device
Jul 06 10:24:20 machine bumblebeed[8853]: [16283.347411] [ERROR]Module nvidia could not be loaded (timeout?)
Jul 06 10:24:20 machine bumblebeed[8853]: [16283.347424] [ERROR]Could not load GPU driver

bbswitch logs:

 dmesg | grep bbswitch 

[    9.500837] bbswitch: version 0.8
[    9.500840] bbswitch: Found integrated VGA device 0000:00:02.0: \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0
[    9.500843] bbswitch: Found discrete VGA device 0000:02:00.0: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG1.PEGP
[    9.500924] bbswitch: detected an Optimus _DSM function
[    9.500926] bbswitch: Succesfully loaded. Discrete card 0000:02:00.0 is off
[  188.667459] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[  263.653031] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[  266.711594] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[  463.862365] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[  493.205301] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[  495.884557] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[  509.107452] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[  737.971976] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[ 1171.496510] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[ 1173.205388] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[ 9207.564099] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[13798.274532] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[13800.351919] bbswitch: disabling discrete graphics
[13811.720350] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[13813.738658] bbswitch: disabling discrete graphics
[15568.146540] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics

bbswitch acpi

cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch

0000:02:00.0 OFF

Despite blacklisting, it appears nouveau still shows up in the kernel list for the nvidia card under

 lspci -k 

(partial output)

02:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] (rev ff)
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by jting (2017-07-06 00:53:51)

V1del

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Re: Lenovo E570p (S5) GTX 1050Ti - struggling to get GPU working

Before we run in circles, optirun is somewhat known for having problems in recent versions, does it work if you use primusrun instead?

jting

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Registered: 2014-10-24

Posts: 11

Re: Lenovo E570p (S5) GTX 1050Ti - struggling to get GPU working

Just installed and ran the same thing using primusrun:

primusrun glxspheres64

primus: fatal: Bumblebee daemon reported: error: Could not enable discrete graphics card

Seems like it has the same problem of not having access to the graphics card at all (at least the problem is inconsistent in my current scenario...I guess?).

Some additional relevant info (I'll also append these to the original post for anyone else who may be coming across this thread):

I came across multiple variations of this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … us_laptop/ staging that TLP was the cause, but I am neither running TLP nor powertop.

Checking the bumblebee service's status:

sudo systemctl status bumblebeed.service

bumblebeed.service - Bumblebee C Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bumblebeed.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2017-07-05 14:27:57 AEST; 20h ago
 Main PID: 8853 (bumblebeed)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/bumblebeed.service
           └─8853 /usr/bin/bumblebeed

Jul 06 10:23:20 machine bumblebeed[8853]: [16222.734001] [ERROR]Could not load GPU driver
Jul 06 10:24:20 machine bumblebeed[8853]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device
Jul 06 10:24:20 machine bumblebeed[8853]: [16283.347411] [ERROR]Module nvidia could not be loaded (timeout?)
Jul 06 10:24:20 machine bumblebeed[8853]: [16283.347424] [ERROR]Could not load GPU driver

bbswitch logs:

 dmesg | grep bbswitch 

[    9.500837] bbswitch: version 0.8
[    9.500840] bbswitch: Found integrated VGA device 0000:00:02.0: \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0
[    9.500843] bbswitch: Found discrete VGA device 0000:02:00.0: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG1.PEGP
[    9.500924] bbswitch: detected an Optimus _DSM function
[    9.500926] bbswitch: Succesfully loaded. Discrete card 0000:02:00.0 is off
[  188.667459] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[  263.653031] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[  266.711594] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[  463.862365] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[  493.205301] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[  495.884557] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[  509.107452] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[  737.971976] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[ 1171.496510] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[ 1173.205388] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[ 9207.564099] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[13798.274532] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[13800.351919] bbswitch: disabling discrete graphics
[13811.720350] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[13813.738658] bbswitch: disabling discrete graphics
[15568.146540] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics

bbswitch acpi

cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch

0000:02:00.0 OFF

Despite blacklisting, it appears nouveau still shows up in the kernel list for the nvidia card under

 lspci -k 

(partial output)

02:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] (rev ff)
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

Last edited by jting (2017-07-06 00:53:29)

jting

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Registered: 2014-10-24

Posts: 11

Re: Lenovo E570p (S5) GTX 1050Ti - struggling to get GPU working

I will try and see if I have any luck on Ubuntu following a similar process/tutorials catered for Ubuntu and post back to see if I have any luck, as I've previously had hardware problems that simply didn't occur for me on Ubuntu.