[SOLVED] Xorg / Bumblebee on Asus N56V

Question

Hello.
I've recently choose to give my laptop a true OS, but I encoutered some difficulties.
Modèle : ASUS N56V8 with Intel HD Graphics 4000 and Nvidia GeForce 650M
It came originally with Windows 8, uefi, secureboot and all.
I already had some experience with debian who's never too far away (I use it for my home servers), but for my personal needs I wanted to try something different, and some people talked to me about Archlinux, so why not give it a try.
Because I don't know If I'll need W8 again for my school next year (because I'm student in an IT school I was was using some windows-only software), I choose to keep it, and did a dual boot. I followed the Beginner's Guide and somewhat managed to install Archlinux without problems.
# uname -a
Linux yog-sothoth 3.15.5-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 11 07:56:02 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Here is my setup :
lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
├─sda1 vfat SYSTEM 206F-C75B /boot
├─sda2 ntfs Recovery 2CF4196AF4193812
├─sda3
├─sda4 ntfs 9C40CB1E40CAFDD0
├─sda5 ntfs Data F21E20A41E2063B7
├─sda6 ntfs Restore 4C6623F16623DB0A
├─sda7 ext4 c74ce11d-1a68-4f80-8676-69bf0bc0ca6c /
└─sda8 ext4 5d5ccd3c-a000-4b98-a9ff-493319e2ea47 /home
where
sda1 is the originally installed EFI partition (who's dualbooting my AL/W8 without a hitch)
sda2-3-4 are the W8 systems partition
sda-5 is a ntfs partition shared for both systems
sda-6 is the asus recovery partition
sda-7 is Archlinux Root
sda-8 is Archlinux Home
The problem :
I watend to install a graphic interface (gnome 3), so I tried to install xorg, bumblebee and  so on since I've apparently Nvidia Optimus
Tutorials followed :
Archlinux wiki bumblebee
Archlinux wiki xorg
# 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 650M] (rev ff)
.xinitrc
exec gnome-session
And... It didn't work. It try to launch and close immediately. (.xinit contain just exec gnome-session)
Optirun doesn't work either
Here's my Xorg.0.log :
Short version :
[ 1071.726]
(EE) No devices detected.
[ 1071.726] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 1071.726] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[ 1071.726] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[ 1071.726] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[ 1071.726] (EE)
Xorg.0.log Long version
Xorg.8.log Long version (this one say kbd module doesn't exist but kbd is already installed ?)
EDIT : New Xorg.0.log without the xorg.conf.d.files : http://pastie.org/private/z6i8yygucboc0fteorbs9g && Xorg.8.log http://pastie.org/private/sx9ywyhodvsnjsrimlla
Here's my /etc/X11-6xorg.conf.d/ files :
10-keyboard-layout.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Keyboard Layout"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "XkbLayout" "ch"
Option "XkbVariant" "fr"
EndSection
10-monitor.conf
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "PreferredMode" "1980x1024"
EndSection
10-intel.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
#Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
#Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection
10-nvidia.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout"
Screen 0 "nvidia"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "nvidia"
Device "nvidia"
Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
EndSection
(10-evdev.conf and 10-quirks.conf are the default one)
Hope I don't have forgotten something.
Can you help me ?
Last edited by noirvent (2014-07-22 02:00:00)

Answer 1

Little up here.
I've tried many thing to resolve my problem, like using nouveau etc., but nothing good.
Then I re-installed the Intel/Nvidia Bumblebee initial lot.
I was wondering if the prob was my wrong configuration of Xorg, so I copied the default .xinitrc and startx and some ugly white and green window showed up, yaaay.
And then I realized I was probably editing the wrong conf file since no matter I was messing with /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. But Bumblebee seems to use /etc/bumblebee/xorg,conf.nvidia
Since the problem was he could not find the device to use for secondary screen, I uncommented the BusID line (after checking it was the right device with lspci)
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
Option "AutoAddGPU" "false"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "DiscreteNvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
# If the X server does not automatically detect your VGA device,
# you can manually set it here.
# To get the BusID prop, run `lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'` and input the data
# as you see in the commented example.
# This Setting may be needed in some platforms with more than one
# nvidia card, which may confuse the proprietary driver (e.g.,
# trying to take ownership of the wrong device). Also needed on Ubuntu 13.04.
BusID "PCI:01:00:0"
# Setting ProbeAllGpus to false prevents the new proprietary driver
# instance spawned to try to control the integrated graphics card,
# which is already being managed outside bumblebee.
# This option doesn't hurt and it is required on platforms running
# more than one nvidia graphics card with the proprietary driver.
# (E.g. Macbook Pro pre-2010 with nVidia 9400M + 9600M GT).
# If this option is not set, the new Xorg may blacken the screen and
# render it unusable (unless you have some way to run killall Xorg).
Option "ProbeAllGpus" "false"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "UseEDID" "false"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "none"
EndSection
Pastie link
Aaand... The error message updated. now it's
Script started on Tue 22 Jul 2014 12:27:21 AM CEST
# optirun -vv glxinfo
[ 1733.273715] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 1733.274423] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.2.1 starting...
[ 1733.274457] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
[ 1733.274476] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 1733.274495] [DEBUG] X display: :8
[ 1733.274513] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/lib/nvidia:/usr/lib32/nvidia
[ 1733.274533] [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
[ 1733.274552] [DEBUG] Accel/display bridge: auto
[ 1733.274571] [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy
[ 1733.274588] [DEBUG] VGLrun extra options:
[ 1733.274607] [DEBUG] Primus LD Path: /usr/lib/primus:/usr/lib32/primus
[ 1733.274660] [DEBUG]Using auto-detected bridge virtualgl
[ 1733.286662] [INFO]Response: No - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0. Please
[ 1733.286689] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0. Please
[ 1733.286710] [DEBUG]Socket closed.
[ 1733.286743] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
[ 1733.286762] [DEBUG]Killing all remaining processes.
Script done on Tue 22 Jul 2014 12:27:30 AM CEST
New Xorg.0.log : http://pastie.org/private/1zcvxvvnnm8wrtz7uvtpia
New Xorg.8.log : http://pastie.org/private/zlbiqgr5hozngzt8qlhkvq  (This one seems to have more usable informations)
So the new problem is : Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0
as ArchLinux Wiki Bumblebee Troubleshooting say, I should add rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1 to my kernel parameters. The source link of this fix talk about grub files to edit, but I'm using Gummiboot and don't know how to edit kernel parameters
(and now whenever I use startx or optirun, the nvidia's card fan start working like crazy until I shutdown )
EDIT : found https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ke … #Gummiboot
tried adding on boot (one shot).
copied /etc/skel/.xinitrc, uncommted the gnome-session line
startx
Yay, Gnome 3 ! But I don't have any mouse.
optimus still failed though
EDIT 2 : Seems like working (Gnome 3, though. Optirun is a matter of time. Thanks for... the help, I guess
Last edited by noirvent (2014-07-22 02:00:54)