Hi Lee, On Wednesday 30 October 2013 01:30:41 Lee Yeoh wrote: > Distro: (K)ubuntu 13.10 > Kernel: Linux lee-XPS-17 3.11.0-12-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 9 > 16:20:46 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > Manufacturer and model > > > baseboard-manufacturer: Dell Inc. > > baseboard-product-name: 0XN71K > > baseboard-version : FAB1 > > system-manufacturer : Dell Inc. > > system-product-name : Dell System XPS L702X > > system-version : Not Specified > > bios-vendor : Dell Inc. > > bios-version : A19 > > bios-release-date : 09/07/2012 > > Bumblebee version > > > optirun (Bumblebee) 3.2.1 > > 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. > > I used to play Team Fortress 2 via optirun with no problems. However, a > recent update from (K)ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10 created some problems. Now, > it slows down incredibly every 10–20 minutes or so. For about 10 > seconds, fps drops to 2–3 of frames per second. CPU usage seems low > during these moments. In addition, tonight I had the program freeze for > about 10 seconds, then drop to 1 frame per second for several minutes. > It was similar to when I originally troubleshooted optirun options, and > accidentally played the game from the Intel card, so I checked if > optirun was running.
Sounds like something got stuck in the drivers. > > $ optirun --status > > Bumblebee status: Error (3.2.1): [XORG] (EE) BUG: triggered 'if > > (inSignalContext)' > > Hence, it seemed that optirun had stopped working, as normally I get The full message from /var/log/Xorg.8.log: (EE) BUG: triggered 'if (inSignalContext)' (EE) BUG: ../../os/log.c:599 in LogVMessageVerb() (EE) Warning: attempting to log data in a signal unsafe manner while in signal context. Please update to check inSignalContext and/or use LogMessageVerbSigSafe() or ErrorFSigSafe(). The offending log format message is: 3rd Button detected: disabling emulate3Button (EE) (EE) Backtrace: (EE) 0: Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x3d) [0x7f3cfa49002d] (EE) 1: Xorg (LogVMessageVerb+0x165) [0x7f3cfa49c195] (EE) 2: Xorg (xf86Msg+0x8f) [0x7f3cfa38c5bf] (EE) 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so (0x7f3cf31d6000+0x6adb) [0x7f3cf31dcadb] (EE) 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so (0x7f3cf31d6000+0x6e3e) [0x7f3cf31dce3e] (EE) 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so (0x7f3cf31d6000+0x4024) [0x7f3cf31da024] (EE) 6: Xorg (0x7f3cfa2ee000+0x91af8) [0x7f3cfa37faf8] (EE) 7: Xorg (0x7f3cfa2ee000+0xba520) [0x7f3cfa3a8520] (EE) 8: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f3cf93ee000+0xfbb0) [0x7f3cf93fdbb0] (EE) 9: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__select+0x13) [0x7f3cf80fadc3] (EE) 10: Xorg (WaitForSomething+0x19c) [0x7f3cfa48d5ec] (EE) 11: Xorg (0x7f3cfa2ee000+0x54d61) [0x7f3cfa342d61] (EE) 12: Xorg (0x7f3cfa2ee000+0x4456a) [0x7f3cfa33256a] (EE) 13: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f3cf8029de5] (EE) 14: Xorg (0x7f3cfa2ee000+0x448af) [0x7f3cfa3328af] This seems to be related to your Xorg mouse driver. > > $ optirun --status > > Bumblebee status: Ready (3.2.1). X is PID 22937, 1 applications using > > bumblebeed. > > FWIW, if I have no optirun applications running, I always get the first > message. > > Also, I'm not sure if important, but I run the game with > > > LD_PRELOAD="libpthread.so.0 libGL.so.1" __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 > > optirun %command% This is probably from the wrapper around TF2, it is not harmful. As for the solution, I have no idea, try different versions of the nvidia driver, remove the xorg-xserver-input-mouse (or something like that) package or ask other people with the same issues. Kind regards, Peter -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~bumblebee Post to : bumblebee@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~bumblebee More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
