Help? optimus/bumblebee force shutoff

Question

Hi @ everybody,
I've installed Arch (3.10.3-1-ARCH) on my new Vaio SVS13A2 notebook. Works like a charm, except of the graphics switching thing...
I've installed the intel+intel-dri and nvidia driver, bumblebee, bbswitch, as well as primus.
So first of all I check if bumblebee deamon is running and then turn the craphics on:
# systemctl | grep bumblebee
bumblebeed.service loaded active running Bumblebee C Daemon
# tee /proc/acpi/bbswitch <<<ON
ON
# cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
0000:01:00.0 ON
# lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 640M LE] (rev a1)[/ins]
#modprobe nvidia
dmesg | grep -C 10 bbswitch:
[ 2.361897] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
[ 2.363428] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.10
[ 2.363486] iTCO_wdt: Found a Panther Point TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0460)
[ 2.363612] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
[ 2.393956] systemd-udevd[156]: renamed network interface eth0 to enp4s0
[ 2.417337] systemd-udevd[165]: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlp2s0
[ 2.420532] [drm] GMBUS [i915 gmbus dpd] timed out, falling back to bit banging on pin 6
[ 2.435022] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 2.450563] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S
[ 2.457345] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Radio type=0x2-0x1-0x0
[ 2.476037] bbswitch: version 0.7
[ 2.476040] bbswitch: Found integrated VGA device 0000:00:02.0: \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0
[ 2.476042] bbswitch: Found discrete VGA device 0000:01:00.0: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP
[ 2.476090] bbswitch: detected an Optimus _DSM function
[ 2.476098] pci 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007)
[ 2.476123] bbswitch: Succesfully loaded. Discrete card 0000:01:00.0 is on
[ 2.477101] bbswitch: disabling discrete graphics
[ 2.491352] pci 0000:01:00.0: power state changed by ACPI to D3cold
[ 147.364282] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[ 147.573363] pci 0000:01:00.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
[ 283.321906] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 283.321910] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 283.326888] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[ 283.327030] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20130102 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1
[ 283.327035] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 325.15 Wed Jul 31 18:50:56 PDT 2013
If I type:
# optirun -vv glxgears
or
#primusrun glxgears
then the notebook just goes instant off, like i pulled the battery. Can't be healthy... Please help.
glxgears is working normally without optirun/primusrun.
This is what optirun displays, before the whole system just shutoff:
#optirun -vv glxgears
[ 51.955411] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 51.955626] [INFO]Configured driver: nvidia
[ 51.955738] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.2.1 starting...
[ 51.955746] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
[ 51.955750] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 51.955753] [DEBUG] X display: :8
[ 51.955764] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/lib/nvidia:/usr/lib32/nvidia
[ 51.955767] [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
[ 51.955769] [DEBUG] Accel/display bridge: primus
[ 51.955780] [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy
[ 51.955783] [DEBUG] VGLrun extra options:
[ 51.955787] [DEBUG] Primus LD Path: /usr/lib/primus:/usr/lib32/primus
here are my configs:
bumblebee.conf
[bumblebeed]
VirtualDisplay=:8
KeepUnusedXServer=false
ServerGroup=bumblebee
TurnCardOffAtExit=false
NoEcoModeOverride=false
Driver=nvidia
XorgConfDir=/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.d
[optirun]
Bridge=primus
VGLTransport=proxy
PrimusLibraryPath=/usr/lib/primus:/usr/lib32/primus
AllowFallbackToIGC=false
[driver-nvidia]
KernelDriver=nvidia
PMMethod=auto
LibraryPath=/usr/lib/nvidia:/usr/lib32/nvidia
XorgModulePath=/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg/,/usr/lib/xorg/modules
XorgConfFile=/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia
xorg.conf.nvidia:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
Option "AutoAddGPU" "false"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "DiscreteNvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "ProbeAllGpus" "false"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "UseEDID" "false"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "none"
EndSection
Hope there is no information missing.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Martin
Last edited by martin155 (2013-08-08 12:41:44)

Answer 1

Yeah, you're right. Should have read the comment above PMMethod. I've now read the rest of the config at least
Lekensteyn wrote:Can you try to isolate the faulty component? It seems that bbswitch+nvidia = power off, but what about using Driver=nouveau?
What if you manually (with bumblebeed disabled) run (after a reboot without bumblebeed running nor nvidia loaded):
every command you wrote works like a charm:
# modprobe -v bbswitch
insmod /lib/modules/3.10.3-1-ARCH/extramodules/bbswitch.ko.gz
# tee /proc/acpi/bbswitch <<<OFF
OFF
# tee /proc/acpi/bbswitch <<<ON
ON
# cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
0000:01:00.0 ON
# modprobe -v nvidia
insmod /lib/modules/3.10.3-1-ARCH/extramodules/nvidia.ko.gz
# modprobe -v -r nvidia
rmmod nvidia
# tee /proc/acpi/bbswitch <<<OFF
OFF
# cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
0000:01:00.0 OFF
Turning the card on/off and loading nvidia kernel module via modprobe works.
There seems to be sth wrong with bumblebee?! I reinstalled everything several times / deleted config etc, before I opened this thread.
Oh, you're right Lekenstyn: I forgot to mention that it's the same with nouveau.
So there has to be sth wrong with bumblebee, right?
But what? I'm totally new to Linux-Optimus.
€dit: I'm not totally new to Arch, but why the heck is journalctl only outputting logs upto 2nd Aug? strange...
Well, this has to wait a sec, gotta go to the grocery
Last edited by martin155 (2013-08-08 17:04:48)