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

[solitone]

BTW, now on Jessie I have that log file!

Cheers


On 01/02/15 13:39, solitone wrote:
> The strange thing is I had no /var/log/Xorg.8.log file!
>
> Now, for several reasons, I have upgraded to jessie and I no longer 
> get that error when launching optirun.
>
> I'm sorry.
>
> Regards,
>   Davide
>
>
> On 01/02/15 10:02, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>> Control: tag -1 + moreinfo
>>
>> 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
>