Gigabyte Q2532 - GT 540M

[lulzbane]

Hi there :)

I recently got a new notebook, the Gigabyte Q2532 which has the GT 540M and Optimus, I've been trying to get it working properly for days now and I am running into a bit of a wall now.

To start with, I couldn't find anybody else on the interwebs who has a Gigabytte Q2532 and trying to use bumblebee so maybe this can help someone in the future.

So in a nutshell...

• If I try to do a regular boot (using Linux Mint 11 btw) the boot seems to succeed and after a bit I hear the "ping" sound which normally happens when the gdm login screen is displayed but my screen remains blank.
• If I boot into recovery mode and go to console, startx doesn't work initially but after running sudo bumblebee-enablecard it seems to start working but then like before I hear the ping and the screen is not updated.
• If I boot into recovery mode and go to use failsafe graphics for one session the login screen does display and I can login etc.

So working from failsafe graphics mode, in the terminal if I try to run optirun glxgears I get this:

* Stopping Bumblebee X server bumblebee                                 [fail] 
ERROR: Module nvidia does not exist in /proc/modules
_PS3 Disabling nVidia card succeeded.

But if I first run sudo /etc/init.d/bumblebee enable it shows:

* Starting Bumblebee X server bumblebee                                        
_PS0 Enabling nVidia card succeeded.
.                                                                        [ OK ]

Then optirun glxgears displays a black square in the top left of the terminal for an instant, which then disappears and I get this:

 * Stopping Bumblebee X server bumblebee                                        
_PS3 Disabling nVidia card succeeded.
                                                                         [ OK ]
ERROR: Module nvidia does not exist in /proc/modules
_PS3 Disabling nVidia card succeeded.

Now, if I do sudo /etc/init.d/bumblebee enable and then sudo modprobe nvidia-current and then optirun glxgears the black square still disappears instantly but the response I get is

Another bumblebee powered application is running, keeping bumblebee alive.

I'd also like to say that I really don't care for using the Intel card as I'm always plugged in so battery power is not a concern, but I do need my nvidia card to be the one running my desktop because that's the one which does HDMI properly.

So now some info...

/var/local/bin/bumblebee-enablecard /var/local/bin/bumblebee-disablecard /etc/X11/xorg.conf (I'm using a copy of xorg.conf.nvidia) /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia /var/log/Xorg.0.log

My original xorg.conf was... /etc/X11/xorg.conf

But with that xorg.conf I get the

* Stopping Bumblebee X server bumblebee                                 [fail] 

during boot and then it freezes at the point where it would normally go to the login screen. But it's not a dead stop as I can still do ctrl+alt+del and it reboots.

[Lekensteyn]

The bumblebee code from this repo is not stable and may cause freezes and such. Please wait until the stable version is available from https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee Using twitter? Get updates from https://twitter.com/Team_Bumblebee

[lulzbane]

Ok, I'll do that.

I've been thinking and I think there is something wrong with my boot scripts, if running... sudo /etc/init.d/bumblebee enable sudo modprobe nvidia-current optirun glxgears gives an almost successful result then I need those things to take place in boot instead of whatever is happening now.

But as soon as a stable version is released at https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee I'll check if it fixes things and report back.

[Lekensteyn]

Just a note, the developing version from Bumblebee-Project may be more stable than the one from ppa:mj-casalogic or this repo, so I suggest you to remove it if you haven't already.

[ArchangeGabriel]

Please try the new version here : https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee.