Intel GPU hung in my NVIDIA Optimus laptop with Debian Stable KDE

[Shervin Emami]

Thanks Vincent.

I removed bumblebee related packages & rebooted, then ran this instruction:

# apt-get -t wheezy-backports install bumblebee

It installed bumblebee and recommended that I install "bumblebee-nvidia",
and it also gave this warning:

insserv: warning: script is corrupt or invalid:
/etc/init.d/../rc2.d/S22rc.local~

(I attached S22rc.local~ to this email)

But now when I try to install "bumblebee-nvidia" (either using "apt-get
install" or from wheezy-backports), it gives this error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package bumblebee-nvidia is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'bumblebee-nvidia' has no installation candidate


How do I install "bumblebee-nvidia"?

PS: Do you know if it is easy to increase the size of my dmesg output? When
I experienced that recent hung GPU my dmesg output overflowed, so it would
be good if I can make it bigger for next time I need it.



Cheers,
Shervin Emami.
http://www.shervinemami.info/openCV.html


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Shervin Emami <shervin.emami at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks Vincent, I am new to Debian so actually I hadn't installed any
> > backports because I thought it was difficult and cause instabilities, but
> > now I realize backports are actually really easy and potentially more
> stable
> > than my current situation.
>
> While there's no guarantee of stability if you use backported packages
> (you may have noticed that backports are not enabled or even mentioned
> in sources.list by default), they're typically more stable and less
> likely to cause trouble compared to 3rd-party packages/repositories,
> or compiling from source. After all, backported packages (from
> backports.d.o) are prepared and/or uploaded by Debian
> Developers/Maintainers.
>
> > I was using the instructions at "http://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee" for
> > Wheezy so I was getting bumblebee from "http://suwako.nomanga.net/", and
> > using the Wheezy versions of Linux kernel and nvidia-current, nvidia-glx,
> > nvidia-kernel-dkms, freeglut3, libxmu6, nvidia-cuda-toolkit packages,
> and I
> > had set glx to "/usr/lib/mesa-diverted".
>
> Just wanted to point out that "nvidia-current" is an Ubuntu-specific
> metapackage, and if you have that installed, you may want to check to
> see if you've installed any other Ubuntu packages by accident.
>
> > So now I should uninstall bumblebee, bbswitch-dkms, virtualgl &
> > virtualgl-libs (and remove it from sources.list), then install them from
> > wheezy-backports while still using the Wheezy versions of everything
> else?
> > Or should I also install the nvidia packages from backports or download
> > latest from NVIDIA website?
>
> Yes, stick with packages from wheezy and cherrypick what you need from
> wheezy-backports (you can obviously still fetch packages from other
> sources, but then you're less likely to receive support from official
> Debian support channels).
>
> There currently aren't any nvidia packages in wheezy-backports, but
> the version in wheezy (304.xx) is new enough to work with bumblebee
> and with your Quadro 1000M (which according to nvidia only requires a
> driver >= 270.41 [1]), so you'll get all you need for Optimus support
> with:
>
> # apt-get install nvidia-glx bumblebee-nvidia primus
>
> And if you're using your nvidia card purely for CUDA, not for running
> any opengl applications with your nvidia card, you don't even need
> virtualgl/primus.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Regards,
> Vincent
>
> [1] http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-270.41.06-driver
>
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