Bug#717687: bumblebee: cannot activate the discrete nvidia card

[Maurizio Avogadro]

Hi,

interestingly enough, I experienced the same issue only when I upgraded
from 319.32-1 to 319.32-2; one of the main  differences between these 2
versions (while not documented in the Debian changelog AFAICS: is it one
of the changes merged from 304.88-7?) is the module rename: that is,
very likely, the reason of the issue. I now reinstalled the 319.32-1 and
bumblebee now works again even with kernel 3.10 (I'm manually applying
the patch at http://pastebin.com/JDpkR3kt, which I strongly suggest
since the other patches don't remove the /proc/driver/nvidia upon module
removal, which causes a kernel oops when the nvidia module is loaded the
next time).


Maurizio


Il 04/08/2013 18:19, LOMBARD Maxime ha scritto:
> Hi guys, I found something.
>
> If you install Nvidia 304.88 package, the module is named : nvidia.ko
> but the module for the Nvidia 319.32 package is named : nvidia-current.ko
>
> Even if i modify "/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf" to replace
> "KernelDriver=nvidia" by "KernelDriver=nvidia-current", this bug
> always exist.
>
> I create a bug report on bumblebee github :
> https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/452 and for
> them, it's a kernel 3.10 problem.
>
> So, i tried the experimental Nvidia driver + Kernel 3.9 from Testing
> and the same bug exist.
>
> Andreas, if you read this bug report, it can be possible to re-package
> Nvidia 319.32 driver to modify the module name ?
>
> Thanks,
> Max