<div dir="ltr">Well, the good news is, the GLX alternative bug with legacy-390xx appears to have been fixed. <br><br>The bad news is that the main bug of bumblebeed failing to load at startup for whatever reason is still there. Have any suggestions for troubleshooting? (Also, since this bug affects both the latest nvidia-driver (410) as well as nvidia-driver-legacy-390xx, I'd prefer trying to work with 410)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 5:48 PM Luca Boccassi <<a href="mailto:bluca@debian.org" target="_blank">bluca@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">That's not the case anymore in buster, 390xx works fine with other packages</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, 21:03 Danfun360 <<a href="mailto:danfun360@gmail.com" target="_blank">danfun360@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I already tried legacy-390xx. As I said before, there doesn't seem to be equivalents of nvidia-cuda-toolkit and nvidia-cuda-dev that don't try to force the latest nvidia drivers. Also, bumblebee doesn't recognize the legacy-390xx drivers as a GLX alternative (I get an error stating such).<br><br>If I was to remove bbswitch, would I be unable to use PRIMUS? Also how would I go about with my VGA Passthrough setup?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 4:12 PM Luca Boccassi <<a href="mailto:bluca@debian.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bluca@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Control: severity -1 minor<br>
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Try switching to legacy-390xx, or removing bbswitch and using the<br>
kernel's power management, with these laptops it's always a dice roll<br>
on what will actually work<br>
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On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 14:19 -0400, Danfun360 wrote:<br>
> The graphics card in my laptop is an Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050.<br>
> <br>
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 7:20 AM Luca Boccassi <<a href="mailto:luca.boccassi@gmail.co" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">luca.boccassi@gmail.co</a><br>
> m><br>
> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > What Nvidia card does your laptop have?<br>
> > <br>
> > On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, 03:42 Daniel O. <<a href="mailto:danfun360@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">danfun360@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
> > <br>
> > > Package: bumblebee-nvidia<br>
> > > Version: 3.2.1-20<br>
> > > Severity: grave<br>
> > > Justification: renders package unusable<br>
> > > <br>
> > > Dear Maintainer, I write this bug report because this<br>
> > > bumblebee/bumblebeed<br>
> > > doesn't work as it should.<br>
> > > <br>
> > > * What led up to the situation? Bumblebee used to work<br>
> > > correctly when<br>
> > > the<br>
> > > nvidia driver was at 390. A few days ago it was upgraded to 410.<br>
> > > At the<br>
> > > time I<br>
> > > was running Debian Buster (testing as of this writing). That's<br>
> > > where<br>
> > > things<br>
> > > started to get problematic. It appears that the nvidia module<br>
> > > couldn't be<br>
> > > unloaded or something. bbswitch reported as "ON" without optirun,<br>
> > > and as<br>
> > > the<br>
> > > nvidia drivers were considered in use, I was unable to unbind the<br>
> > > nvidia<br>
> > > driver<br>
> > > for VGA Passthrough as I had been doing before.<br>
> > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or<br>
> > > ineffective)? I uninstalled every bumblebee and nvidia<br>
> > > package. I<br>
> > > then<br>
> > > reinstalled everything. No luck. I then uninstalled everything<br>
> > > and went<br>
> > > for the<br>
> > > legacy 390 package. Unfortunately there were problems with that:<br>
> > > nvidia-cuba-<br>
> > > toolkit and nvidia-cuba-dev require the latest nvidia driver<br>
> > > installed.<br>
> > > On top<br>
> > > of that, bumblebee refused to see the legacy 390 drivers as a glx<br>
> > > alternative.<br>
> > > I uninstalled all the nvidia stuff again, switched to Debian Sid,<br>
> > > and<br>
> > > installed<br>
> > > the latest nvidia drivers again (they were slightly more up to<br>
> > > date on<br>
> > > Sid than<br>
> > > in Buster). Still no change.<br>
> > > * What was the outcome of this action? Bumblebee should be<br>
> > > able to<br>
> > > blacklist<br>
> > > the nvidia driver and isolate it from the operating system in<br>
> > > such a way<br>
> > > that<br>
> > > the system would run on the integrated GPU and run the discrete<br>
> > > GPU for<br>
> > > applications when called for.<br>
> > > * What outcome did you expect instead? The nvidia driver is<br>
> > > not<br>
> > > blacklisted,<br>
> > > and the discrete GPU is in control.<br>
> > > <br>
> > > On a different note, I tried posting a bug report upstream. It<br>
> > > has some<br>
> > > information this report might not have (vice versa is definitely<br>
> > > the case,<br>
> > > unfortunately). It can be found at <a href="https://github.com/Bumblebee-" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/Bumblebee-</a><br>
> > > Project/Bumblebee/issues/1023<br>
> > > <br>
> > > <br>
> > > <br>
> > > -- System Information:<br>
> > > Debian Release: buster/sid<br>
> > > APT prefers unstable<br>
> > > APT policy: (500, 'unstable')<br>
> > > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)<br>
> > > Foreign Architectures: i386<br>
> > > <br>
> > > Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)<br>
> > > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,<br>
> > > TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE<br>
> > > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),<br>
> > > LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)<br>
> > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash<br>
> > > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)<br>
> > > LSM: AppArmor: enabled<br>
> > > <br>
> > > Versions of packages bumblebee-nvidia depends on:<br>
> > > ii bumblebee 3.2.1-20<br>
> > > ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.9.1<br>
> > > ii nvidia-driver 410.104-1<br>
> > > ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 410.104-1<br>
> > > <br>
> > > bumblebee-nvidia recommends no packages.<br>
> > > <br>
> > > bumblebee-nvidia suggests no packages.<br>
> > > <br>
> > > -- no debconf information<br>
> > > <br>
> > > _______________________________________________<br>
> > > pkg-nvidia-devel mailing list<br>
> > > <a href="mailto:pkg-nvidia-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">pkg-nvidia-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net</a><br>
> > > <a href="https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-nvid" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-nvid</a><br>
> > > ia-devel<br>
> > <br>
> > <br>
-- <br>
Kind regards,<br>
Luca Boccassi<br>
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