Bumblebee X Server init.d script start/stop/restart weird logic

[michalsmolinski]

Hi All,

I'm using bumblebee ppa on Ubuntu 11.04 with Samsung SF310 laptop (Downloaded it today, the bumblebee, not the laptop :) ). I configured bumblebee using bumblebee-configure using one of the available scripts for my laptop. Initially I had a problem with enable/disable scripts, because they shoud have been empty files (for my laptop no appropriate ACPI calls have been found so far) but these files contained one strange byte. Nevertheless, I replaced these files with empty ones and I discovered that the optirun is still complaining:

$optirun glxspheres

Polygons in scene: 62464

• Stopping Bumblebee X server bumblebee [fail]

When I look closer I discovered that the /etc/init.d/bumblebee script does strange thing - it actually stops the Bubmblebee X Server when invoked with parameter "start". Such a parameter is passed to the above script by the optirun program.

A simple workaround is to say: $sudo /etc/init.d/bumblebee restart

which restarts the X Server as one may expect.

It seems that the optirun script should use "enable" and "disable" parameters to the /etc/init.d/bumblebee script instead of "start" and "stop".

What do you think?

Cheers, Michal

[Lekensteyn]

Actually, you're affected by a logic error in the bumblebee optirun script. The optirun script in the PPA starts /etc/init.d/bumblebee only if:

• the X server is not running
• the card is not enabled (checked using lspci)

Since your card is never disabled as no ACPI call has been done, optirun skips the start of bumblebee. Until the PPA is updated, you need to run /etc/init.d/bumblebee enable before starting optirun.