Control: severity -1 minor Try switching to legacy-390xx, or removing bbswitch and using the kernel's power management, with these laptops it's always a dice roll on what will actually work
On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 14:19 -0400, Danfun360 wrote: > The graphics card in my laptop is an Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050. > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 7:20 AM Luca Boccassi <luca.bocca...@gmail.co > m> > wrote: > > > What Nvidia card does your laptop have? > > > > On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, 03:42 Daniel O. <danfun...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > Package: bumblebee-nvidia > > > Version: 3.2.1-20 > > > Severity: grave > > > Justification: renders package unusable > > > > > > Dear Maintainer, I write this bug report because this > > > bumblebee/bumblebeed > > > doesn't work as it should. > > > > > > * What led up to the situation? Bumblebee used to work > > > correctly when > > > the > > > nvidia driver was at 390. A few days ago it was upgraded to 410. > > > At the > > > time I > > > was running Debian Buster (testing as of this writing). That's > > > where > > > things > > > started to get problematic. It appears that the nvidia module > > > couldn't be > > > unloaded or something. bbswitch reported as "ON" without optirun, > > > and as > > > the > > > nvidia drivers were considered in use, I was unable to unbind the > > > nvidia > > > driver > > > for VGA Passthrough as I had been doing before. > > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > > > ineffective)? I uninstalled every bumblebee and nvidia > > > package. I > > > then > > > reinstalled everything. No luck. I then uninstalled everything > > > and went > > > for the > > > legacy 390 package. Unfortunately there were problems with that: > > > nvidia-cuba- > > > toolkit and nvidia-cuba-dev require the latest nvidia driver > > > installed. > > > On top > > > of that, bumblebee refused to see the legacy 390 drivers as a glx > > > alternative. > > > I uninstalled all the nvidia stuff again, switched to Debian Sid, > > > and > > > installed > > > the latest nvidia drivers again (they were slightly more up to > > > date on > > > Sid than > > > in Buster). Still no change. > > > * What was the outcome of this action? Bumblebee should be > > > able to > > > blacklist > > > the nvidia driver and isolate it from the operating system in > > > such a way > > > that > > > the system would run on the integrated GPU and run the discrete > > > GPU for > > > applications when called for. > > > * What outcome did you expect instead? The nvidia driver is > > > not > > > blacklisted, > > > and the discrete GPU is in control. > > > > > > On a different note, I tried posting a bug report upstream. It > > > has some > > > information this report might not have (vice versa is definitely > > > the case, > > > unfortunately). It can be found at https://github.com/Bumblebee- > > > Project/Bumblebee/issues/1023 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- System Information: > > > Debian Release: buster/sid > > > APT prefers unstable > > > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > > > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > > > > > Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > > > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, > > > TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE > > > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > > > LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > > > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > > > > > Versions of packages bumblebee-nvidia depends on: > > > ii bumblebee 3.2.1-20 > > > ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.9.1 > > > ii nvidia-driver 410.104-1 > > > ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 410.104-1 > > > > > > bumblebee-nvidia recommends no packages. > > > > > > bumblebee-nvidia suggests no packages. > > > > > > -- no debconf information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > pkg-nvidia-devel mailing list > > > pkg-nvidia-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net > > > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-nvid > > > ia-devel > > > > -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
