Fedora 18 & Bumblebee from NCSU won't run

[Erunur]

So I had Fedora 17 on my Lenovo y570 with bumblebee-nvidia installed from the NCSU repo but I upgraded to Fedora 18 this week and I installed the correct repo from NCSU for my system but when I use optirun I get this error.

[ 837.128244] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (module does not exist, 0)

[ 837.128267] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

Somehow I remember getting this error before when I first got into bumblebee but I do not remeber how to fix it. Does anyone know what causes this error?

[bastani]

Hello

I have almost the same problem. I installed Fedora 18 but I use the nouveau drivers instead of nvidia drivers.

To install bumblebee I enabled the fedora-updates-testing repository and installed the VirtualGL using yum (instead of compiling the source) and then installed bumblebee as explained in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee.

Now when I try to run optriun I get the same error. More precisely:

/opt/bumblebee/bin/optirun -vv glxgears
[ 1005.163331] [DEBUG]Reading file: /opt/bumblebee/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 1005.293195] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.0.1 starting...
[ 1005.293249] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
[ 1005.293263] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /opt/bumblebee/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 1005.293275] [DEBUG] X display: :8
[ 1005.293285] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: 
[ 1005.293295] [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
[ 1005.293305] [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy
[ 1005.521482] [INFO]Response: No - error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (module does not exist, 0)

[ 1005.521528] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (module does not exist, 0)

[ 1005.521543] [DEBUG]Socket closed.
[ 1005.521571] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
[ 1005.521583] [DEBUG]Killing all remaining processes.

I even doubt if the nvidia card is properly turned off by bbswitch or not because the power consumption (reported by powertop) didn't change significantly after installing bumblebee.

I would very appreciate if anyone can help.

Cheers,

[Erunur]

I've been talking to the bumblebee maitainer and it seems that its a problem with acpi-handle-hack and the 3.7 kernel so I just made teh decision to go back to fc 17 and just follow where things go from here.
You can see more about it here https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch/issues/2

[bastani]

Thank you very much for your reply.

So this basically means with the current settings on my machine the nVidia card is NOT switched off. Isn't it?

[masterbm]

I have not upgraded my laptop to 18 yet. Mine has lite if it is intel blue. Nvidia white.Or bumblebee not installed white. If my nvidia card has power it is white.

[bastani]

Unfortunately mine does not have such an indicator. I am really curious to learn how may I check whether the nVidia card is switched off or not?

Apparently that card is not used since for example glxgears reports low FPS rates.

[bastani]

I found some time to investigate the issue in more details. It turns out that on Fedora 18 (at least on my machine) bumblebee does not turn off the nVidia card:

$ cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch 
0000:01:00.0 ON

However, running

 echo OFF > /proc/acpi/bbswitch

apparently turns off the card. The logs show:

$ dmesg | grep bbswitch
[   29.301150] bbswitch: version 0.5
[   29.301856] bbswitch: Found integrated VGA device 0000:00:02.0: \_SB_.PCI0.VID_
[   29.302526] bbswitch: Found discrete VGA device 0000:01:00.0: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_
[   29.303398] bbswitch: detected an Optimus _DSM function
[   29.304063] bbswitch: Succesfully loaded. Discrete card 0000:01:00.0 is on
[ 8432.644990] bbswitch: disabling discrete graphics

Now, if I try to run an application by optirun, I get the same errors as before, and afterwards the nVidia card is turned on again. This time, surprisingly, bbswitch refuses OFF command:

$ echo OFF > /proc/acpi/bbswitch 
$ dmesg | grep bbswitch
[   29.301150] bbswitch: version 0.5
[   29.301856] bbswitch: Found integrated VGA device 0000:00:02.0: \_SB_.PCI0.VID_
[   29.302526] bbswitch: Found discrete VGA device 0000:01:00.0: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_
[   29.303398] bbswitch: detected an Optimus _DSM function
[   29.304063] bbswitch: Succesfully loaded. Discrete card 0000:01:00.0 is on
[ 8432.644990] bbswitch: disabling discrete graphics
[ 8692.688552] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[ 8713.287185] bbswitch: device 0000:01:00.0 is in use by driver 'nouveau', refusing OFF
[ 8754.525836] bbswitch: device 0000:01:00.0 is in use by driver 'nouveau', refusing OFF
[ 8866.211991] bbswitch: device 0000:01:00.0 is in use by driver 'nouveau', refusing OFF

I also found this : https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch/issues/39 ; suggesting the optimus technology is being officially supported by Fedora 18. But I couldn't understand how to enable PRIME (and use it instead of bumblebee).