What Nvidia card does your laptop have? On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, 03:42 Daniel O. <danfun...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-nvidia-devel mailing list > pkg-nvidia-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-nvidia-devel