bumblebeed on ppc32 ? (was: loading nouveau causes screen to become unresponsive)

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 2016-11-07 at 11:07 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Karl-Philipp Richter <krichter at posteo.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am 07.11.2016 um 07:44 schrieb Mathieu Malaterre:
> >> You have a really surprising setup. How is it even possible to have
> >> bumblebeed on PPC32 ? the package is supposed to be empty for this
> >> arch.
> > It's on an iMac G4 PowerMac6,1.
> >
> >> What's the output of:
> >>
> >> $ apt-cache policy bumblebee
> >
> >     bumblebee:
> >       Installiert:           3.2.1-13
> >       Installationskandidat: 3.2.1-13
> >       Versionstabelle:
> >      *** 3.2.1-13 100
> >             100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> I failed to understand how you could possibly build a powerpc version
> of bumblebee, the build system must be badly broken. Anyway please
> remove this package ASAP and try to modprobe nouveau again.
> 
> By compiling yourself random stuff you are making it hard to diagnose
> the root issue.
> 
> Thanks.

Hi,

The user reports using 4.7 kernel, but note that with 4.8 upstream
recommends to stop using bumblebee + nouveau, and just use the native
Power Management support and PRIME for offload rendering:

https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/773

Peter Wu and many others did a lot of great work upstream to make PM
work just fine.

Of course we'll maintain it for Jessie, but going forward Bumblebee is
needed only with the proprietary blob.

I would recommend the user to wait for 4.8 to hit Stretch and purge
bumblebee and primus from the system, and try again as recommended in
the link above.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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