<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Peter Hutterer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter.hutterer@who-t.net" target="_blank">peter.hutterer@who-t.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">My plan is to retire these two xorg input drivers in rawhide in a week or<br>
two. They are superseded by the evdev driver which is the default driver for<br>
input devices in Linux.<br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Speak up now, or forever hold yada yada...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hello Peter,</div><div><br></div><div>With the software bumblebee, there seems to be a need for these packages. But I am not really sure why. I don't know if the evdev driver could work around this problem? </div>
<div><br></div><div>If the packages are not installed, then the error message one gets is:</div><div><br></div><div>[ 901.442296] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: <a href="https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/EE">XORG</a> Failed to load module "mouse"<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>The solution I was told on github is to install xorg-x11-drv-mouse and xorg-x11-drv-keyboard packages. Which did indeed solve the problem in fedora 20. The xorg.conf file in this case is:</div><div>
<br></div><div>/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia<br></div><div><br></div><div>The bumblebee developers have set</div><div><br></div><div>Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"<br></div><div><br></div><div>
Should that / can that be changed do you think?</div><div><br></div><div>Just wanted to mention this in case other fedora users have optimus laptops they use with the nvidia drivers? bumblebee is a solution that has been invented for hybrid graphics laptops with intel and Nvidia GPUs. It runs another X server in memory and copies the visuals with software. Either with VirtualGL or primus.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>