Bumblebee-nvidia fails to build nvidia blob

[mex20]

Hello,

 I have been trying to get bumblebee to work with a 15" mid 2010 macbook pro 6,2 that has a Core I7-m620, an IronLake iGPU, and a NVIDIA Corporation GT216M [GeForce GT 330M] (rev a2) and have had some trouble getting it to work.

After following the installation instructions from the fedora project site for the closed source unmanaged with proprietary nvidia blob, my system does not want to boot into the GUI. It takes a few minutes, but eventually a login prompt appears and I have been able to run 'sudo bumblebee-nvidia --debug' command and I get the text in the file below: bumblebee-nvidiadebug.txt

[gsgatlin]

Interesting. Ok. Try this:

copy the bumblebee-nvidia script to somewhere. Like in your home directory.

cp /usr/sbin/bumblebee-nvidia ./

edit with some text editor.

find the line:

bumblebee_libglvnd="--no-libglx-indirect --no-install-libglvnd --no-glvnd-glx-client --no-glvnd-egl-client"

and change it to:

bumblebee_libglvnd=""

save that. Then run it with root or sudo. Does that temporarily work around the issue? If so I think we can maybe fix it permanently by querying the installer's help function. Just want to see if that even works though.

[mex20]

I just got done trying your suggestion. It was successful in it's purpose of letting the nvidia-installer run successfully. Now I am just getting stuck with the nvidia.ko not loading.

Thank you very much for your help on this.

[gsgatlin]

hmnn. I might have access to a macbook with nvidia. Not really sure though about that. But in any event, can you post the log of

/var/log/nvidia-installer.log

to

https://paste.fedoraproject.org/

and post the link in this issue. Do you know if anyone got bumblebee to work on a macbook with any distros? I think bbswitch doesn't work on a macbook. But there is a different module iirc.

[gsgatlin]

Yeah, this was it.

https://github.com/ah-/gmux-scripts

https://github.com/ah-/gmux

so somehow you'd have to get that to work with fedora. Looks like it was made for ubuntu. and it looks kind of old.

[mex20]

Here is the log out of the /var/log/nvidia-installer.log as requested. To me it looks like the same problem is happening to the Nvidia driver is having the same issue as bbswitch, where it is already loaded in the spot that the installer tries to insert it.

Thanks for the links to the other project to help me out. I am curious as to why you think that bbswitch doesnt work on a macbook, and if it doesnt then I would love to help get it running if possible. I have only discovered this project 3 days ago and have yet to dive deep into the code.

[gsgatlin]

Hello.

I mentioned bbswitch due to:

https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/585

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nz0fhczdFHBWnSv1Wr3BWOflU-1AvIwNvjVYfeHfT94/edit

So far I have not been able to install fedora 25 on a 2012 macbook pro I have access to. If I use a external DVD drive it hangs on waiting for boot process to start forever and the live desktop never starts.

If I use livecd-iso-to-disk utility the usb disk will not even boot when I press "option" key fedora does not even show up as a option to boot from.

So if I have a fresh macbook pro how can I even install fedora on it to test out bumblebee? It seems like extremely disagreeable hardware to install fedora to.

[gsgatlin]

Ok. It seems MAC boot system thinks fedora usb disk should be labeled "Windows". Trying to install now. But there are LOTs of issues.

[gsgatlin]

"sda may not have enough space for grub2 to embed core.img using the ext4 file system on partition"

So it seems I cannot get past that. :(

[dje4321]

nvidia-installer.log.txt

here is my install log. I get the same error when it trys to compile will be glad to help you out in any way

[gsgatlin]

@dje4321 Nvidia out of tree driver module doesn't support 4.11 kernel yet. (Or even 4.10)

I found a patch for 4.10 but did not find one for 4.11 kernel. Did anyone else find one? https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/995636/-patches-378-13-4-10-and-4-11-stageing/

[dje4321]

@gsgatlin that is strange. the 4.10 kernel worked fine for me in fedora 25. Would downgrading the kernel let me compile the driver?

[gsgatlin]

@dje4321 I'm not sure. It looked like from the logs that it did not compile with error nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-fb.c:156:36: error: passing argument 1 of ‘drm_helper_mode_fill_fb_struct’ from incompatible pointer type

and I saw you were using 4.11 kernel from fedora 26.

I wish/hope nvidia will fix it but am unsure of an ETA or the legality of patching it and making it available for download. Has something to do with this:

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/995636/linux/-patches-378-13-4-10-and-4-10-stageing-/

[dje4321]

alright @gsgatlin ill see what a kernel downgrade does cause why not. got nothing to lose. If this doesnt work then i need to install fedora 25 in the mean time

[gsgatlin]

Hey, I see someone made a patch here:

https://pkgs.rpmfusion.org/cgit/nonfree/nvidia-kmod.git/plain/kernel_4.11.patch

So you could see if that works in 4.11 kernel if you need to use that one.

[Brainiarc7]

Following up on that patch.