Bug#707783: FATAL: Error inserting bbswitch (/lib/modules/3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64/updates/dkms/bbswitch.ko): No such device

[Aron Xu]

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org> wrote:
> tags 707783 important
> thanks
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org> wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Can you also attach your dmesg output as well?
>>>
>>> Attached. Thanks.
>>
>> Hmmm...there's nothing related to bbswitch at all in your dmesg output.
>>
>>>> Note that I haven't tested my bbswitch/bumblebee/primus packages in a
>>>> squeeze+backports environment, so I wouldn't know if there are any
>>>> incompatibilities with squeeze and my packages.
>>>
>>> Ok. I understand.
>>>
>>> I have also attached the output of: ./get-acpi-info.sh
>>>
>>> I could not get the ACPI stuff working:
>>>
>>> $ sudo make load
>>> rmmod acpi_dump_info
>>> ERROR: Module acpi_dump_info does not exist in /proc/modules
>>> make: [load] Error 1 (ignored)
>>> insmod acpi_dump_info.ko
>>> insmod: error inserting 'acpi_dump_info.ko': -1 Cannot allocate memory
>>> make: *** [load] Error 1
>>
>> Can you give "acpi-handle-hack" [1] a try? Other than that, I don't
>> have any other suggestions; you'll have to file a bug report upstream,
>> either through their Github issue tracker [2] or #bumblebee on
>> freenode.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch/tree/hack-lenovo
>> [2] https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch/issues
>
> Reading:
>
> https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch/tree/hack-lenovo#lenovo-ideapad-y470y570-and-toshiba-satellite-p870
>
> It looks like bbswitch package should maybe `Depends:
> linux-headers-amd64 (>= 3.8.5)`. If my understanding is correct
> bbswitch as packaged cannot work on linux before 3.8.5
>

Looks like the commit only affects some of the laptops, and I have
verified that bbswitch works correctly (D0 -> D3) with Wheezy's
3.2.0-4 on a ThinkPad T430.


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Regards,
Aron Xu