Bug#716740: bumblebee: primus or virtualgl not available in wheezy-backports

[Vincent Cheng]

Hi James,

FYI, bugs against backported packages (or requests for backports, for
that matter) should be sent directly to the debian-backports mailing
list, not to the BTS. [1]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:39 PM, James Robertson <j at mesrobertson.com> wrote:
> Package: bumblebee
> Version: 3.2.1-1~bpo70+1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
>    * What led up to the situation? Installed bumblebee from wheezy-backports
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)? try and start an application using optirun
>    * What was the outcome of this action? returns with the following error:
>      [  303.693310] [ERROR]No bridge found. Try installing primus or virtualgl.
>    * What outcome did you expect instead? that optirun would launch the
>      application.
>
> The bumblebee package recommends virtualgl and primus however neither of these
> are available in wheezy-backports.

I'll prepare an upload for primus in wheezy-backports soon; thanks for
the reminder.

In the meantime, you can also easily build your own set of primus
packages. Since primus works fine without any source changes, all you
have to do is rebuild it in a wheezy environment, e.g. add a deb-src
entry in your sources.list for testing/unstable, and run:
$ apt-get source --build primus

Regards,
Vincent

[1] http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/#index6h2