Optirun fails on Dell Inspiron 17r SE (7720)

I am using nvidia drivers on 64bit Arch linux with bumblebee+primus+bbswitch. I don't have nouveau installed.
The Issue:
$ optirun -vv glxspheres-32
[ 533.763435] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 533.763665] [INFO]Configured driver: nvidia
[ 533.763891] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.2.1 starting...
[ 533.763908] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
[ 533.763921] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 533.763924] [DEBUG] X display: :8
[ 533.763927] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/lib/nvidia:/usr/lib32/nvidia
[ 533.763930] [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
[ 533.763932] [DEBUG] Accel/display bridge: primus
[ 533.763935] [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy
[ 533.763938] [DEBUG] VGLrun extra options:
[ 533.763941] [DEBUG] Primus LD Path: /usr/lib/primus:/usr/lib32/primus
[ 533.776817] [INFO]Response: No - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0. Please
[ 533.776837] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0. Please
[ 533.776852] [DEBUG]Socket closed.
[ 533.776868] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
[ 533.776872] [DEBUG]Killing all remaining processes.
$ dmesg|grep nvidia
[ 59.696352] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 59.701759] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20130102 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1
[ 61.130531] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: irq 48 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 66.381229] NVRM: nvidia_frontend_open: minor 0, module->open() failed, error -5
[ 534.248840] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: Refused to change power state, currently in D3
$ lsmod|grep nvidia
nvidia 10736148 0
drm 239102 6 i915,drm_kms_helper,nvidia
i2c_core 24760 7 drm,i915,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,nvidia,videodev
$ cat /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
# Configuration file for Bumblebee. Values should **not** be put between quotes
## Server options. Any change made in this section will need a server restart
# to take effect.
[bumblebeed]
# The secondary Xorg server DISPLAY number
VirtualDisplay=:8
# Should the unused Xorg server be kept running? Set this to true if waiting
# for X to be ready is too long and don't need power management at all.
KeepUnusedXServer=false
# The name of the Bumbleblee server group name (GID name)
ServerGroup=bumblebee
# Card power state at exit. Set to false if the card shoud be ON when Bumblebee
# server exits.
TurnCardOffAtExit=false
# The default behavior of '-f' option on optirun. If set to "true", '-f' will
# be ignored.
NoEcoModeOverride=false
# The Driver used by Bumblebee server. If this value is not set (or empty),
# auto-detection is performed. The available drivers are nvidia and nouveau
# (See also the driver-specific sections below)
Driver=nvidia
# Directory with a dummy config file to pass as a -configdir to secondary X
XorgConfDir=/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.d
## Client options. Will take effect on the next optirun executed.
[optirun]
# Acceleration/ rendering bridge, possible values are auto, virtualgl and
# primus.
Bridge=primus
# The method used for VirtualGL to transport frames between X servers.
# Possible values are proxy, jpeg, rgb, xv and yuv.
VGLTransport=proxy
# List of paths which are searched for the primus libGL.so.1 when using
# the primus bridge
PrimusLibraryPath=/usr/lib/primus:/usr/lib32/primus
# Should the program run under optirun even if Bumblebee server or nvidia card
# is not available?
AllowFallbackToIGC=false
# Driver-specific settings are grouped under [driver-NAME]. The sections are
# parsed if the Driver setting in [bumblebeed] is set to NAME (or if auto-
# detection resolves to NAME).
# PMMethod: method to use for saving power by disabling the nvidia card, valid
# values are: auto - automatically detect which PM method to use
# bbswitch - new in BB 3, recommended if available
# switcheroo - vga_switcheroo method, use at your own risk
# none - disable PM completely
# https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Comparison-of-PM-methods
## Section with nvidia driver specific options, only parsed if Driver=nvidia
[driver-nvidia]
# Module name to load, defaults to Driver if empty or unset
KernelDriver=nvidia
PMMethod=auto
# colon-separated path to the nvidia libraries
LibraryPath=/usr/lib/nvidia:/usr/lib32/nvidia
# comma-separated path of the directory containing nvidia_drv.so and the
# default Xorg modules path
XorgModulePath=/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg/,/usr/lib/xorg/modules
XorgConfFile=/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia
## Section with nouveau driver specific options, only parsed if Driver=nouveau
[driver-nouveau]
KernelDriver=nouveau
PMMethod=auto
XorgConfFile=/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nouveau
EDIT
Issue solved by adding "rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1" to kernel parameters. Bug https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39092.
Last edited by psorek (2014-03-22 17:46:34)

Just the same with sudo optirun -vv glxspheres-32.
I've reinstalled following packages, it's just as it was.
yaourt -S bumblebee nvidia xf86-video-intel
I can't downgrade kernel, some of my packages need the latest one.
Last edited by psorek (2014-03-14 11:34:58)

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