Bug#776598: bumblebee-nvidia: Cannot access secondary GPU - error: X did not start properly

[Vincent Cheng]

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Hi,

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:18 PM, solitone <solitone at mail.com> wrote:
> Package: bumblebee-nvidia
> Version: 3.2.1-4~bpo70+1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I have bumblebee-nvidia 3.2.1-4~bpo7 and nvidia-driver 340.65-2~bpo on
> an amd64 architecture laptop. My kernel version is:
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux aldous 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt2-1~bpo70+1 (2014-12-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> After all packages were succesfully installed, I tried and ran:
>
> $ optirun glxspheres64
>
> to test whether everything worked fine. I got this error message though:
>
> [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver
>
> I then edited /etc/bumblebee/bumblebeehihi.conf, and changed "KernelDriver=nvidia"
> to "KernelDriver=nvidia-current", then restarted the bumblebee daemon.
>
> I retried the test with optirun, but this time I got a different error message:
>
> [18100.861997] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: X did not start properly
> [18100.862071] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

Please attach your /var/log/Xorg.8.log.

Regards,
Vincent