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FS#37737 - [Bumblebee] forces mesa-libgl on dual-nvidia laptops (macbookpro 5,1)
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Opened by Nathan Todd (niarbeht) - Tuesday, 12 November 2013, 10:49 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Friday, 15 November 2013, 19:09 GMT
Opened by Nathan Todd (niarbeht) - Tuesday, 12 November 2013, 10:49 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Friday, 15 November 2013, 19:09 GMT
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DetailsDescription:
Dual-nvidia Macbook Pros have two nvidia graphics chips. In the case of the Macbook Pro 5,1, that's an nvidia 9600GT (dedicated) and a 9400M (integrated). Bumblebee pulled in patches a while ago to support this setup: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/pull/260 This works, but unfortunately the bumblebee package, in it's current state in Arch Linux, forces the user to install mesa-libgl, resulting in the nvidia driver not finding nvidia-libgl when X starts, causing X to fall back to the llvmpipe for rendering. As such, the user is left with optirun being hardware-accelerated, while their main X display is not. This is not an optimal configuration. Since my grub install is currently broken, my system boots from refind at the moment, meaning I cannot control which graphics chip gets the video output. As such, my config files currently reflect that my integrated 9400 is being utilized as the "dedicated" card by bumblebee, and my 9600 is being used as the "integrated" card, but the principle is the same (and I'll probably have grub fixed before the end of the night, anyway, or so I hope). Additional info: Packages bumblebee 3.2.1-3 primus 20131027-1 /etc/bumlebee/bumblebee.conf http://pastebin.com/Sqz5ym0d /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia http://pastebin.com/CRftNiyf (BusID should be "PCI:02:00:0", but see above for note about broken grub) /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf http://pastebin.com/HtFwX7Ec (BusID here should be "PCI:03:00:0", but again, grub's being mean, so they're swapped for now) /var/log/Xorg.0.log http://pastebin.com/ifnTWdj6 Steps to reproduce: 1) Have a dual-nvidia laptop 1.a) Set up Grub2 to tell the gmux chip to attach the video to the 9400 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting#Selecting_the_graphic_card 2) Install Arch, bumblebee, your favorite X environment, nvidia, configure it all 3) systemctl start bumblebeed 4) systemctl start gdm (or however you want to get into X) 5) glxinfo | grep renderer 6) optirun glxinfo | grep renderer 5 will show llvmpipe, 6 will show GeForce 9600 or similar. Optimally, both would be GeForce 9x00/blah/SSE2/etc. If more information is required, let me know. |
Xorg.0.log
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Closed by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Friday, 15 November 2013, 19:09 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't fix
Friday, 15 November 2013, 19:09 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't fix
lspci | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96M [GeForce 9600M GT] (rev a1)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400M] (rev b1)
I replaced mesa-libgl in the depends with nvidia-libgl. I should learn more about how pkgbuild works to see if I can figure out a way to make it a user-choice between the two, with the default being mesa-libgl. I also removed 'nvidia-libgl' from the "conflicts" and "provides" sections. So, it works now.
Given that changes to Arch's actual pkgbuild used to generate the actual bumblebee package would probably be annoying and confusing for users, and would probably add support for only a tiny subset of users, I'm guessing I should learn how to add stuff to the AUR, and just mirror the official Arch pkgbuild for bumblebee and make my necessary changes.