[Fedora] - No GUI after install bumblebee on Fedora 23

Thu Jan 7 17:00:33 UTC 2016

On 8 January 2016 at 01:15, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 7 January 2016 at 15:11, Earl A Ramirez <earlaramirez at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have a ASUS laptop with NVIDIA Optimus technology, therefore, I used
>> the Fedora documentation [0] to install bumbleeble using the third party
>> managed driver to install NVIDIA. After the installation I am no longer
>> seeing the NVIDIA when I use 'lspci | grep VGA'; however, when I use 'lspci
>> | egrep 'VGA|3D'' I can see the NVIDIA video card.
>>
>> $ lspci | grep VGA
>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 191b (rev 06)
>>
>> $ lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'
>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 191b (rev 06)
>> 01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] (rev
>> a2)
>>
>> Also I no longer see the vgaswitcheroo under /sys/kernel/debug/. When I
>> try to boot with the kernel that NVIDIA was build on; the laptop locks up
>> just before the GUI and you will hear the fans blowing and the only way
>> around it is to power the laptop down. I have tried booting into that
>> kernel with different kernel parameters; E.g. nomodeset
>> rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau and even i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 and all
>> options and combinations fails.
>>
>> However when I boot from the kernel that NVIDIA was not compiled on I can
>> the the get a display that says "oops something went wrong, please try
>> again" and there is an option to log out, I can also switch to another
>> virtual console and have full access to the OS. I get the same behaviour
>> even if I use nomodeset; however, if I use i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 I
>> get the appropriate resolution.
>>
>> Can anyone shed some light on how to get the GUI, with bumblebee or even
>> the Intel graphic drivers?
>>
>> The packages that were installed are:
>> $ rpm -qa | egrep 'bumblebee|bbswitch|primus|VirtualGL'
>> primus-1.1.03282015-2.fc23.x86_64
>> bumblebee-nvidia-352.63-2.fc23.x86_64
>> bbswitch-dkms-0.8.0-2.fc23.x86_64
>> bumblebee-nonfree-release-1.2-1.noarch
>> VirtualGL-2.4-5.fc23.i686
>> bumblebee-release-1.2-1.noarch
>> primus-1.1.03282015-2.fc23.i686
>> VirtualGL-2.4-5.fc23.x86_64
>> bumblebee-3.2.1-9.fc23.x86_64
>>
>>
> <snip>
>
> Sounds like we practically the same laptop ...
>
> This will go a lot easier for you if you install kernel 4.3.3-300 from
> updates-testing as that has the full skylake  i915 support (so don't do
> preliminary_hw_support on that).
>
> This looks suspicious ... Xorg should not see the NVIDIA driver if you've
> managed to follow the bumblebee instructions correctly:
>
> (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
> [     4.334] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
> [     4.334]  compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
> [     4.334]  Module class: X.Org Server Extension
> [     4.335] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module  358.16  Mon Nov 16 18:54:01 PST 2015
>
> Compare this to mine where optirun/bumblebee/primus works fine:
>
> [    23.343] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
> [    23.343] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
> [    23.345] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> [    23.345]    compiled for 1.18.0, module version = 1.0.0
> [    23.345]    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 9.0
>
> If the NVIDIA GLX libraries are loaded into xorg it'll trash your intel
> stuff ...
>
> Are you sure you didn't install the NVIDIA proprietary drivers (rpmfusion,
> negativo17 or directly) in some way other than only through the bumblebee
> non-free repo?
>
> This is my configuration:
> $ rpm -qa | grep -E 'nvidia|bumblebee|bbswitch|primus|VirtualGL'
> primus-1.1.03282015-2.fc23.i686
> bumblebee-3.2.1-9.fc23.x86_64
> VirtualGL-2.4-5.fc23.i686
> bumblebee-release-1.2-1.noarch
> bumblebee-nvidia-352.63-2.fc23.x86_64
> VirtualGL-2.4-5.fc23.x86_64
> bbswitch-dkms-0.8.0-2.fc23.x86_64
> bumblebee-nonfree-release-1.2-1.noarch
> primus-1.1.03282015-2.fc23.x86_64
>
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX has in it nouveau.modeset=0 and
> rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau
>
> Before I updated to 4.3.3 today the preliminary_hw_support=1 was needed as
> well.
>
> What's the output of bumblebee-nvidia --check for you ?
>
>
>
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> Hello James,

Thanks, this is the output from bumblebee-nvidia --check

bumblebee-nvidia --check
--force compile selected via /etc/sysconfig/nvidia/compile-nvidia-driver
Warning! This NVIDIA driver has not compiled successfully before on kernel
4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64!
Warning! This NVIDIA driver userland
 /usr/lib64/nvidia-bumblebee/libGL.so.1 library is missing!

Warning! nvidia.ko was not created in in the kernel tree!
modinfo output for NVIDIA:

modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia not found.

Check bbswitch kernel module...

Warning! bbswitch is not loaded into this kernel!
Since bbswitch is not loaded into the kernel, lets do additional checks on
it...
dkms status bbswitch output:
bbswitch, 0.8.0, 4.2.8-300.fc23.x86_64, x86_64: installed

if the bbswitch package is installed, you may wish to try:
/usr/sbin/dkms add -m bbswitch -v 0.8.0
/usr/sbin/dkms build -m bbswitch -v 0.8.0
/usr/sbin/dkms install -m bbswitch -v 0.8.0
/sbin/modprobe bbswitch

To get clues as to why bbswitch is failing on this kernel...
All NVIDIA checks completed, but there were 1 or more failures...
Try running this script with the --debug option to find clues about what has
gone wrong with the NVIDIA driver compile process.

When I use the debug option I was prompt to install the NVIDIA driver
manually; which I did and this may cause the suspicion that you saw. I will
enable and install the kernel from testing and give it a try and report
back.

The next step will be to install all packages for bumblebee and NVIDIA and
to a clean install. It may worth mentioning that I had to install Fedora by
adding the nomodeset to the kernel argument because I was not able to boot
the OS initially.

Thanks again for your help.
-- 
Kind Regards
Earl Ramirez
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