Laptop: Acer Predator PH315-52 OS : UBUNTU 18.04.2 LTS Nvidia Driver : 418.87 Kernel : 5.0.0-37-generic Processors : Intel UHD 630 and Nvidia 1660 Ti bbswitch version: 0.8-4ubuntu1 bumblebee version: 3.2.1+git20181231-103~bionicppa1
$ grep bumblebeed /var/log/syslog
Output:
Predator bumblebeed[3353]: Received Terminated signal. Predator bumblebeed[3353]: Unable to disable discrete card. Predator bumblebeed[7981]: /usr/sbin/bumblebeed started Predator bumblebeed[7981]: Unable to disable discrete card.
$ lsmod | grep -i nouveau
Output: (Blank output) ## showing nouveau is not loaded
$ lsmod | grep nvidia
Output:
i2c_nvidia_gpu ## Handled it via "$ modprobe -r i2c_nvidia_gpu" but the problem still remains ## and the outputs of all too remains the same ## Blank output of "lsmod | grep nvidia" after unloading it using ablove command
$ cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
Ouput:0000:01:00.0 ON
$ sudo tee /proc/acpi/bbswitch <<<**OFF**
Output:OFF
$ dmesg | grep bbswitch
[ 6.659422] bbswitch: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 6.660407] bbswitch: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 6.661578] bbswitch: version 0.8
[ 6.662580] bbswitch: Found integrated VGA device 0000:00:02.0: \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0
[ 6.663575] bbswitch: Found discrete VGA device 0000:01:00.0: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP
[ 6.665690] bbswitch: detected an Optimus _DSM function
[ 6.667873] bbswitch: Succesfully loaded. Discrete card 0000:01:00.0 is on
[ 18.818552] bbswitch: disabling discrete graphics
[ 114.697607] bbswitch: disabling discrete graphics
[ 114.697852] acpi_thermal_rel intel_pch_thermal wmi_bmof acer_wmi
acer_wireless intel_lpss mac_hid soundcore sparse_keymap acpi_pad sch_fq_codel parport_pc ppdev lp parport bbswitch(OE) ip_tables x_tables autofs4 hid_generic usbhid i915 kvmgt vfio_mdev mdev vfio_iommu_type1 vfio kvm irqbypass i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops drm alx ahci mdio i2c_hid libahci i2c_nvidia_gpu hid wmi video pinctrl_cannonlake pinctrl_intel
[ 114.697897] bbswitch_off+0xbb/0x230 [bbswitch]
[ 114.697898] bbswitch_proc_write+0xb5/0xcc [bbswitch]
[ 446.444365] bbswitch: disabling discrete graphics
$ cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
Ouput:0000:01:00.0 ON #############This is the problem,it should display OFF
$ optirun --status
Output: Bumblebee status: Ready (). X inactive. Discrete video card is on.
Also video LNXVIDEO:00: Failed to change power state to D3hot
Installation steps taken:
$ sudo apt update
Installed Cuda 10.1 .deb package from nvidia website and driver 418.87 was automatically installed with the package(also prime-select was also installed with it)
$ sudo nano /etc/default/grub
changed - GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='pcie_port_pm=off acpi_backlight=none acpi_osi=Linux acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=\"Windows 2009\"'
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/testing
$ sudo apt update
Installed synaptics package manager and then through it installed bumblebee,bumblebee-nvidia and primus(and all others which by default get installed with them like bbswitch)
$ sudo nano /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
Changed 'Driver=' to 'Driver=nvidia' Bridge=primus KernelDriver=nvidia PMMethod=bbswitch LibraryPath=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu XorgModulePath=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg,/usr/lib/xorg/modules XorgConfFile=/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia
$ sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/bumblebee.conf
blacklist nvidia blacklist nvidia-current blacklist nvidia-current-updates blacklist nvidia_drm blacklist nvidia_uvm blacklist nvidia_modeset blacklist nvidiafb blacklist i2c-nvidia-gpu blacklist i2c-nvidia-gpu blacklist nouveau blacklist nvidia-current
$ sudo nano /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf
added following:
i915
bbswitch
selected intel as prime profile
Restarted laptop and the above stated problems kicked in.
Also upon startup grep bumblebeed /var/log/syslog shows- Predator bumblebeed[864]: /usr/sbin/bumblebeed started Predator bumblebeed[864]: Unable to disable discrete card.
Please help me solve the problem.
