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

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hello Vincent,

On Monday 19 August 2013 03:36 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at debian.org> wrote:
>> Package: bumblebee
>> Version: 3.2.1-3
>> Followup-For: Bug #717687
>>
>> Vincent,
>>
>> Now that the 325.xx series drivers are in experimental, what do we do
>> with this bug ?
>> Also, kernel 3.10 is now is unstable (and testing).
>>
>> You should increase the severity of this bug because it breaks the
>> tool's functionality.
> There are actually several different issues affecting (or rather,
> having affected) bumblebee in Debian lately (and I've just merged all
> the reports into this one), none of which I can directly fix myself,
> but all of which have either been fixed or have workarounds:
>
> 1) nvidia + linux 3.10 compatibility - fixed for most users as of
> src:nvidia-graphics-drivers 325.15-1, no need for 3rd party patches
> anymore. However, users with certain laptop models may still have
> issues with linux 3.10 + proprietary nvidia kernel module (see [1] for
> details). There's nothing I can do about this; it needs to be fixed by
> Nvidia themselves.

Yup!! This hit me too. Even after the workarounds, I am unable to load
the driver. But my platform is a Lenovo W530.

> 3) nvidia module in Debian renamed as of 319.32-2 to "nvidia-current"
> (to support co-installation of several different versions of the
> proprietary driver) - workaround is to edit
> /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf and change "KernelDriver=nvidia" to
> "KernelDriver=nvidia-current", and then restarting bumblebeed
> ("service bumblebeed restart"). This is not a change that I'd consider
> making as default because it breaks bumblebee for Debian users not on
> the latest nvidia driver series (e.g. I'd assume that once the legacy
> nvidia 304 series is branched off, that it'll be given a different
> module name), and also it'd break bumblebee for Ubuntu users. The most
> I can do right now is probably just add an entry about this in
> README.Debian.
>
> Hence, the situation isn't ideal but I doubt it's release-critical.
> Even if it was, there's not much I can do about it.
>
Thanks for the updates.

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System


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