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

[Mathieu Malaterre]

severity 707783 wishlist
thanks


On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Aron Xu <happyaron.xu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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