Bug#924704: bumblebee-nvidia: nvidia-driver 410 doesn't appear to allow the unloading of the nvidia module

[Luca Boccassi]

What Nvidia card does your laptop have?

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, 03:42 Daniel O. <danfun360 at gmail.com wrote:

> Package: bumblebee-nvidia
> Version: 3.2.1-20
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Dear Maintainer, I write this bug report because this bumblebee/bumblebeed
> doesn't work as it should.
>
>    * What led up to the situation? Bumblebee used to work correctly when
> the
> nvidia driver was at 390. A few days ago it was upgraded to 410. At the
> time I
> was running Debian Buster (testing as of this writing). That's where things
> started to get problematic. It appears that the nvidia module couldn't be
> unloaded or something. bbswitch reported as "ON" without optirun, and as
> the
> nvidia drivers were considered in use, I was unable to unbind the nvidia
> driver
> for VGA Passthrough as I had been doing before.
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)? I uninstalled every bumblebee and nvidia package. I then
> reinstalled everything. No luck. I then uninstalled everything and went
> for the
> legacy 390 package. Unfortunately there were problems with that:
> nvidia-cuba-
> toolkit and nvidia-cuba-dev require the latest nvidia driver installed. On
> top
> of that, bumblebee refused to see the legacy 390 drivers as a glx
> alternative.
> I uninstalled all the nvidia stuff again, switched to Debian Sid, and
> installed
> the latest nvidia drivers again (they were slightly more up to date on Sid
> than
> in Buster). Still no change.
>    * What was the outcome of this action? Bumblebee should be able to
> blacklist
> the nvidia driver and isolate it from the operating system in such a way
> that
> the system would run on the integrated GPU and run the discrete GPU for
> applications when called for.
>    * What outcome did you expect instead? The nvidia driver is not
> blacklisted,
> and the discrete GPU is in control.
>
> On a different note, I tried posting a bug report upstream. It has some
> information this report might not have (vice versa is definitely the case,
> unfortunately). It can be found at https://github.com/Bumblebee-
> Project/Bumblebee/issues/1023
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
> TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages bumblebee-nvidia depends on:
> ii  bumblebee               3.2.1-20
> ii  glx-alternative-nvidia  0.9.1
> ii  nvidia-driver           410.104-1
> ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms      410.104-1
>
> bumblebee-nvidia recommends no packages.
>
> bumblebee-nvidia suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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