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#1 2019-07-11 13:47:41

SaJmoN170
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Registered: 2018-08-17
Posts: 6

Bumblebee can't access secondary gpu [Dell XPS 15 9570]

I have a GTX 1050 Ti and I've followed these instructions from Arch Wiki on how to use this GPU with Bumblebee, but even though I've followed them thoroughly I get this error when I get to the part when I have to check if the GPU is working:

[sajmon@sajmon-laptop ~]$ optirun glxgears
[ 1101.982723] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver

[ 1101.982858] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

After checking the logs I've found out that modprobe doesn't work

[sajmon@sajmon-laptop ~]$ sudo bumblebeed -vv
[ 1647.768057] [DEBUG]Found card: 01:00.0 (discrete)
[ 1647.768081] [DEBUG]Found card: 00:02.0 (integrated)
[ 1647.768116] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 1647.768478] [DEBUG]Process /sbin/modprobe started, PID 3766.
[ 1647.768597] [DEBUG]Hiding stderr for execution of /sbin/modprobe
[ 1647.769710] [DEBUG]SIGCHILD received, but wait failed with No child processes
[ 1647.769735] [DEBUG]Detected nvidia driver (module nvidia)
[ 1647.769920] [INFO]Loading driver bbswitch (module bbswitch)
[ 1647.770124] [DEBUG]Process modprobe started, PID 3767.
modprobe: FATAL: Module bbswitch not found in directory /lib/modules/5.1.15-arch1-1-ARCH
[ 1647.771164] [DEBUG]Process with PID 3767 returned code 1
[ 1647.771307] [ERROR]Module bbswitch could not be loaded (timeout?)
[ 1647.771362] [DEBUG]bbswitch is not available, perhaps you need to insmod it?
[ 1647.771374] [INFO]Skipping switcheroo PM method because it is not explicitly selected in the configuration.
[ 1647.771477] [WARN]No switching method available. The dedicated card will always be on.
[ 1647.771534] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
[ 1647.771574] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 1647.771618] [DEBUG] X display: :8
[ 1647.771630] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/lib/nvidia:/usr/lib32/nvidia:/usr/lib:/usr/lib32
[ 1647.771652] [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
[ 1647.771664] [DEBUG] xorg.conf file: /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia
[ 1647.771686] [DEBUG] xorg.conf.d dir: /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.d
[ 1647.771719] [DEBUG] ModulePath: /usr/lib/nvidia/xorg,/usr/lib/xorg/modules
[ 1647.771742] [DEBUG] GID name: bumblebee
[ 1647.771793] [DEBUG] Power method: auto
[ 1647.771804] [DEBUG] Stop X on exit: 1
[ 1647.771827] [DEBUG] Driver: nvidia
[ 1647.771838] [DEBUG] Driver module: nvidia
[ 1647.771908] [DEBUG] Card shutdown state: 1
[ 1647.772076] [DEBUG]Process /sbin/modprobe started, PID 3768.
[ 1647.772302] [DEBUG]Hiding stderr for execution of /sbin/modprobe
[ 1647.773867] [DEBUG]SIGCHILD received, but wait failed with No child processes
[ 1647.773879] [DEBUG]Configuration test passed.
[ 1647.774372] [INFO]bumblebeed 3.2.1 started
[ 1647.774517] [INFO]Initialization completed - now handling client requests
[ 1658.682930] [DEBUG]Accepted new connection
[ 1658.684095] [INFO]Loading driver nvidia (module nvidia)
[ 1658.684448] [DEBUG]Process modprobe started, PID 3778.
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device
[ 1659.151391] [DEBUG]Process with PID 3778 returned code 1
[ 1659.151909] [ERROR]Module nvidia could not be loaded (timeout?)
[ 1659.151944] [ERROR]Could not load GPU driver
[ 1659.152297] [DEBUG]Socket closed.
[sajmon@sajmon-laptop ~]$ sudo modprobe -v nvidia
insmod /lib/modules/5.1.15-arch1-1-ARCH/extramodules/nvidia.ko.gz 
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device

Am I doing something wrong?

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#2 2019-07-11 15:20:39

V1del
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Registered: 2012-10-16
Posts: 21,427

Re: Bumblebee can't access secondary gpu [Dell XPS 15 9570]

Your kernel is outdated, if you've recently updated you will want to reboot.If you think you did reboot post

pacman -Q nvidia
pacman -Q linux

Last edited by V1del (2019-07-11 15:21:21)

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#3 2019-07-12 12:06:28

SaJmoN170
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Registered: 2018-08-17
Posts: 6

Re: Bumblebee can't access secondary gpu [Dell XPS 15 9570]

Updating didn't really help me, as this problem has persisted through multiple updates. Nevertheless, here's the output of the commands:

[sajmon@sajmon-laptop ~]$ pacman -Q nvidia
nvidia 430.26-9
[sajmon@sajmon-laptop ~]$ pacman -Q linux
linux 5.2.arch2-1
[sajmon@sajmon-laptop ~]$

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#4 2019-08-04 06:34:07

oddsocks
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Registered: 2008-12-08
Posts: 47

Re: Bumblebee can't access secondary gpu [Dell XPS 15 9570]

I found that the bumblebee daemon method didn't work for me as well, and I've used the script option from this long thread, also listed on the wiki page.

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