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

Fri Jan 8 02:21:01 UTC 2016

On 8 January 2016 at 02:22, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 7 Jan 2016 5:00 p.m., "Earl A Ramirez" <earlaramirez at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >
> >
>
> Yeah I had the same experience...
>
> From an initial clean install these are the steps:
>
> 1) boot with the nouveau modeset and blacklist arguments to disable
> nouveau. If nouveau is running (check with lsmod) the nvidia proprietary
> driver will fail to load correctly after compiling leading to the situation
> you see.
> 2) if kernel < 4.3 use the preliminary hw argument
> 3) install bumblebee free and nonfree (managed) repos
> 4) install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia dkms bbswitch.dkms kernel-devel etc
> (basically copy paste the f22+ multilib install line from BB wiki page)
> 5) reboot
> 6) as root run bumblebee-nvidia --check
>
> You may need to poke the bbswitch dkms manually.
>
> After this `glxinfo|grep -i vendor` should show Intel and `optirun
> glxinfo|grep -i vendor` should show nvidia
>
> Without going as far as a clean install you may be able to clean up the
> proprietary driver ... Depends how much customisation you got to beyond
> that install as to the worth doing so.
>
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>
Thanks for the info James

I performed a clean install and used the preliminary hw argument for the
the default kernel 4.2.x and everything worked fine; enabled
fedora-updates-testing repo and installed kernel 4.3 added the
nouveau.modeset=0 and rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau to the kernel argument
and it fails when it tried to load the USB drivers.

My laptop models is [0] Hardware name: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
GL552VW/GL552VW, BIOS GL552VW.210 09/01/2015; if I can't get to boot from
kernel 4.3 I will try and compile mainline kernel and try that or just
settle for the Intel driver for now.

If you have any more tips and tricks; I'll be more than happy to give it s
a shot; In the mean time I will install bumblebee with the 4.2 kernel and
see if that will go well.

[0] http://store.asus.com/us/item/201510AM170008064/A18486

-- 
Kind Regards
Earl Ramirez
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