Hi Christopher, Thanks for your mail, hopefully your new machines won't be as problematic then ;)
Peter On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Christopher Small <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Peter > > Thank you for your response. Sorry it's taken me while to get back. > > My boss didn't want me mucking around with this stuff any more (and I > don't blame him), so we sent the computer to the tech support guys to > work on. It sounds like they aren't able to get my laptop to work with > the full resolution of the monitor we are trying to connect to with > any combination of drivers, bios settings and so on. Even Windows 7 on > a similar computer wouldn't work. So to make a long story short, I'm > not so sure that it really makes too much of a difference at this > point. But if for some reason I have chance and motivation to give it > another go (perhaps even with another computer/monitor, possibly of my > own and not for work), then I'll take another look at your advice and > give it another go. > > Thanks again! > > Chris Small > > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Lekensteyn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Christopher, > > > > I see you've been using the .sh installer from nvidia.com which is a > kiss of > > death for Optimus > > laptops (for the moment). Remove that driver by running > `nvidia-uninstall` > > in recovery mode. > > > > If you do not need to share the external display with the laptop screen, > you > > can start a > > secondary X server using /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia and by setting > the > > right library > > paths as well. For convenience, run `optirun sh` and keep it open. > > Alternatively, edit > > /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf and set KeepUnusedXServer=true and > > PMMethod=none (for the driver-nvidia section). After doing that and `sudo > > restart bumblebeed` > > you can run `optirun whatever` to start the X server. Then you can run a > > program on the second > > display with: > > > > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/nvidia-current:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" > > export DISPLAY=:8 > > yourprogram here > > > > Additional configuration may be necessary in xorg.conf.nvidia like > removing > > UseEDID "false" > > and AutoAddDevices "false". > > > > HTH. > > > > Regards, > > Peter > > > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Christopher Small <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > >> > >> Attached is the bumblebee-bugreport output. > >> > >> I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 with kernel 3.0.0-15-generic > >> > >> The manufacture/model info is as follows: > >> > >> Dell Inc. > >> baseboard-product-name: 032T9K > >> baseboard-version : A02 > >> system-manufacturer : Dell Inc. > >> system-product-name : Latitude E6420 > >> system-version : 01 > >> bios-vendor : Dell Inc. > >> bios-version : A08 > >> bios-release-date : 10/18/2011 > >> > >> > >> optirun -V output > >> > >> optirun (Bumblebee) 3.0 > >> Copyright (C) 2011 The Bumblebee Project > >> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > >> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. > >> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > >> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > >> > >> > >> Problem description: > >> > >> I was able to get bumblebee working on a new work computer that I just > >> got, but was disappointed when I realized that with this specific > >> model, the HDMI seems to be piped directly from the NVIDIA card, thus > >> making it impossible to get the maximal resolution on my secondary > >> monitor at work. I tried uninstalling bumblebee using my package > >> tools, and then installed the normal NVIDIA drivers directly. I got a > >> blank screen and wasn't able to start up X. Removing the xorg.conf > >> file and rebooting, I was able to get back into X, but the graphics > >> were not working. I messed around with the config files a bit with one > >> of our tech support staff, but we weren't able to get that working. > >> > >> I figured that I was at least able to get Gnome Shell and Unity > >> working with the bumblebee setup, and that would be better than > >> nothing. But when I removed the NVIDIA drivers and tried to install > >> everything through bumblebee again, I was not able to get Gnome Shell > >> or Unity back, even though optirun was working from the terminal > >> (showing the high frame rates that I would expect from the graphics > >> card). I went through all of the Troubleshooting guide and wasn't able > >> to find anything that helped. I've tried all sorts of apt-purging, > >> removing, and autocleaning to make sure that nothing was getting left > >> behind that shouldn't, but to no avail. > >> > >> Part of me is suspicious that this is related to some xorg.conf issue. > >> Because I had our tech guy helping me, it was unclear which xorg.conf > >> file was actually working with the first bumblebee install. So some > >> help about what there should be in `/etc/X11/xorg.conf` (if anything, > >> since I noticed there is stuff in `/etc/bumblebee`) might be the > >> ticket. > >> > >> > >> Thanks for your help > >> > >> Christopher Small > >> Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center > >> Computational Biology Program > >> [email protected] > >> > >> -- > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~bumblebee > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~bumblebee > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > >
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