bumblebeed fails at start up runs ok started later

cleemesser / aero15X-laptop-linux-cuda-config

Working through setting up a Gigabyte aero 15X to dual boot linux and cuda

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bumblebeed fails at start up runs ok started later #1

Open cleemesser opened 6 years ago

cleemesser commented 6 years ago

bumblebee is working overall, but the service bumblebeed always fails when I boot. I can start it manually with: sudo service bumblebeed restart

then the nvidia gpu is turned off correctly and the service appears to run well

ghost commented 6 years ago

Hey cleemesser, could you point me in the right direction with how you installed linux on your gigabyte aero 15x? I've had more difficulties with this installation than on other devices before. The furthest I get seems to be, it gets installed, nvidia drivers or a alternative installed, then it breaks by entering a boot loop or nothing at all. I would really appreciate any help or pointers.

cleemesser commented 6 years ago

I am not sure how helpful I can be as I do not remember problems with the installation:

this may be because I was following this blog entry by https://hemenkapadia.github.io/blog/2016/11/11/Ubuntu-with-Nvidia-CUDA-Bumblebee.html
I am pretty sure I disabled secure boot in the bios first and turned of fastboot
one other thing I do tend to do is always boot to the text terminal when installing on new hardware so that a misconfigured graphics driver does not lock me out. Then I start lightdm or xdm or run startx by hand
I used the ubuntu 16.04.3 or 16.04.4 install media from a usb flash drive to install I think and I installed to the second SSD so that I would not affect my windows partition.
The grub default command line settings like "nomodeset i915.modeset=1" are essential, see my grub file for a starting point

Hope this helps. Good luck!

ghost commented 6 years ago

Thank you for sharing this information, you're a real life saver! I'll try these things out.

cleemesser commented 6 years ago

I have added my /etc/default/grub config to the repo for reference

dataisgreat commented 6 years ago

I had to add "nomodeset i915.alpha_support=1 i915.modeset=1" in the grub default command line settings.

ghost commented 6 years ago

Yea maybe that will help me out. I was stuck on the grub screen the other day and was having a hard time going beyond setting my root and loading the kernel. I'm a few months into only using Linux as my OS but it's times like these I'm learning a lot. Thanks for the updates.

cleemesser commented 6 years ago

You can check out my grub info at https://github.com/cleemesser/aero15X-laptop-linux-cuda-config/blob/master/etc/default/grub