Dell XPS 17 not working on Ubuntu 11.04

[marlee]

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mj-casalogic/bumblebee sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install bumblebee

$ optirun glxgears

and nothing happens just:

$ optirun glxgears

• Starting Bumblebee X server bumblebee
  _PS0 Enabling nVidia Card Succeded. [ OK ]
• Stopping Bumblebee X server bumblebee
  _DSM Disabling nVidia Card Succeded. _PS3 Disabling nVidia Card Succeded. [ OK ]

[Hoverbear]

This is also present in the a Lenovo T420 with optimus I submitted a bug report re: issue 404

[ArchangeGabriel]

Can you please upload both enable and disable scripts ?

[marlee]

Enable cart:

modprobe acpi_call

if ! lsmod | grep -q acpi_call; then echo "Error: acpi_call module not loaded" exit fi

acpicall () { echo "$" > /proc/acpi/call result=$(cat /proc/acpi/call) case "$result" in Error_) echo "Enabling nVidia Card failed ($result)." ;; *) echo "Enabling nVidia Card Succeded." ;; esac }

INSERTPOWERON

echo _PS0 $(acpi_call "_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._PS0")

modprobe nvidia-current

---

Disable cart:

rmmod nvidia if lsmod | grep -q nvidia; then echo "Error: could not unload nvidia module, leaving card turned on" exit fi modprobe acpi_call

if ! lsmod | grep -q acpi_call; then echo "Error: acpi_call module not loaded" exit fi

acpicall () { echo "$" > /proc/acpi/call result=$(cat /proc/acpi/call) case "$result" in Error_)
echo "Disabling nVidia Card failed ($result)." ;;
*)
echo "Disabling nVidia Card Succeded."
;;
esac
}

INSERTPOWEROFF

echo _DSM $(acpi_call "_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM" \ "{0xF8,0xD8,0x86,0xA4,0xDA,0x0B,0x1B,0x47," \ "0xA7,0x2B,0x60,0x42,0xA6,0xB5,0xBE,0xE0}" \ "0x100 0x1A {0x1,0x0,0x0,0x3}")

ok to turn off: Buffer {0x59 0x0 0x0 0x11}

# is already off: Buffer {0x41 0x0 0x0 0x11}

echo _PS3 $(acpi_call "_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._PS3")

[ArchangeGabriel]

Ok, I think that these scripts aren't the good ones...

Could you do the following : sudo apt-get install acpidump iasl mkdir ~/acpiinfo ; cd ~/acpiinfo sudo acpidump > acpidump.txt sudo acpixtract acpidump.txt ls *.dat | while read i; do iasl -d "${i}"; done && name=sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name` mkdir "${name}" && cp *.dsl "${name}"/ && tar czf "${name}.tar.gz" "${name}"/ && ls -l "$( pwd )/${name}".tar.gz`

And then upload the .tar.gz file created somewhere and link it here.

I found from where come your scripts, and the people who wrote them did it a very bad way...

[marlee]

http://chomikuj.pl/lesz.mar/Dell%20System%20XPS%20L702X.tar.gz

[ArchangeGabriel]

Thank you, I will study that and come back with a solution.

However, I going to sleep right now and I'm over busy for tomorrow, so don't expect anything before Monday.

[ArchangeGabriel]

Ok, I think I've found the solution for the biggest problem.

Could you post here the content of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia ?

[marlee]

http://chomikuj.pl/lesz.mar/xorg.conf,769285709.nvidia

[MrMEEE]

ok.. this was a bug introduced by the new configuration script.. this is now fixed in both git and ppa..

Please update...

[ArchangeGabriel]

I'm having the calls, will add them soon.

[Lucas-C]

Hi.

I think the problem persists on some form.

Dell XPS 15 L502x NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M, 1G Ubuntu 10.10 64bits (upgraded to 2.6.38-4-generic kernel)

$ optirun64 glxgears

* Starting Bumblebee X server bumblebee _PS0 Enabling nVidia Card Succeded. ...done

• Stopping Bumblebee X server bumblebee
• . _PS0 Disabling nVidia Card Succeded. [ OK ] ...done

A window flashes quicly but close immediately.

I tested another application (a game made with SFML) and it reacts the same way, with some excedent output of openal error messages.

[MrMEEE]

Have you tried with another image transport

optirun -c (proxy,jpeg,xv,yuv)

[Lucas-C]

No, and it worked ! Thanks a lot ! "proxy" work fine; "jpeg" is a bit laggy but "xv" and "yuv" both crash.

[marlee]

Now I have a problem with suspend/hibernate and freezing system, when the card nvidia is deactivated. When the cards nvidia do not turn off, everything is OK. Dell XPS l702x, nvidia GeForce GT 555M

DISABLECART: echo _DSM $(acpi_call "_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM {0xF8,0xD8,0x86,0xA4,0xDA,0x0B,0x1B,0x47,0xA7,0x2B,0x60,0x42,0xA6,0xB5,0xBE,0xE0} 0x100 0x1A {0x1,0x0,0x0,0x3}") echo _PS3 $(acpi_call "_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._PS3")

[ArchangeGabriel]

Yes, this is a known issue, but normally the card should be turned on by the system when you suspend/hibernate.