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[Christopher Small <metasoarous@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter

Thank you for your response. Sorry it's taken me while to get back.

My boss didn't want me mucking around with this stuff any more (and I
don't blame him), so we sent the computer to the tech support guys to
work on. It sounds like they aren't able to get my laptop to work with
the full resolution of the monitor we are trying to connect to with
any combination of drivers, bios settings and so on. Even Windows 7 on
a similar computer wouldn't work. So to make a long story short, I'm
not so sure that it really makes too much of a difference at this
point. But if for some reason I have chance and motivation to give it
another go (perhaps even with another computer/monitor, possibly of my
own and not for work), then I'll take another look at your advice and
give it another go.

Thanks again!

Chris Small


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
>
> I see you've been using the .sh installer from nvidia.com which is a kiss of
> death for Optimus
> laptops (for the moment). Remove that driver by running `nvidia-uninstall`
> in recovery mode.
>
> If you do not need to share the external display with the laptop screen, you
> can start a
> secondary X server using /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia and by setting the
> right library
> paths as well. For convenience, run `optirun sh` and keep it open.
> Alternatively, edit
> /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf and set KeepUnusedXServer=true and
> PMMethod=none (for the driver-nvidia section). After doing that and `sudo
> restart bumblebeed`
> you can run `optirun whatever` to start the X server. Then you can run a
> program on the second
> display with:
>
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/nvidia-current:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
> export DISPLAY=:8
> yourprogram here
>
> Additional configuration may be necessary in xorg.conf.nvidia like removing
> UseEDID "false"
> and AutoAddDevices "false".
>
> HTH.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Christopher Small <metasoarous@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Attached is the bumblebee-bugreport output.
>>
>> I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 with kernel 3.0.0-15-generic
>>
>> The manufacture/model info is as follows:
>>
>>    Dell Inc.
>>    baseboard-product-name: 032T9K
>>    baseboard-version     : A02
>>    system-manufacturer   : Dell Inc.
>>    system-product-name   : Latitude E6420
>>    system-version        : 01
>>    bios-vendor           : Dell Inc.
>>    bios-version          : A08
>>    bios-release-date     : 10/18/2011
>>
>>
>> optirun -V output
>>
>>    optirun (Bumblebee) 3.0
>>    Copyright (C) 2011 The Bumblebee Project
>>    License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
>> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
>>    This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>>    There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>>
>>
>> Problem description:
>>
>> I was able to get bumblebee working on a new work computer that I just
>> got, but was disappointed when I realized that with this specific
>> model, the HDMI seems to be piped directly from the NVIDIA card, thus
>> making it impossible to get the maximal resolution on my secondary
>> monitor at work. I tried uninstalling bumblebee using my package
>> tools, and then installed the normal NVIDIA drivers directly. I got a
>> blank screen and wasn't able to start up X. Removing the xorg.conf
>> file and rebooting, I was able to get back into X, but the graphics
>> were not working. I messed around with the config files a bit with one
>> of our tech support staff, but we weren't able to get that working.
>>
>> I figured that I was at least able to get Gnome Shell and Unity
>> working with the bumblebee setup, and that would be better than
>> nothing. But when I removed the NVIDIA drivers and tried to install
>> everything through bumblebee again, I was not able to get Gnome Shell
>> or Unity back, even though optirun was working from the terminal
>> (showing the high frame rates that I would expect from the graphics
>> card). I went through all of the Troubleshooting guide and wasn't able
>> to find anything that helped. I've tried all sorts of apt-purging,
>> removing, and autocleaning to make sure that nothing was getting left
>> behind that shouldn't, but to no avail.
>>
>> Part of me is suspicious that this is related to some xorg.conf issue.
>> Because I had our tech guy helping me, it was unclear which xorg.conf
>> file was actually working with the first bumblebee install. So some
>> help about what there should be in `/etc/X11/xorg.conf` (if anything,
>> since I noticed there is stuff in `/etc/bumblebee`) might be the
>> ticket.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>>
>> Christopher Small
>> Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
>> Computational Biology Program
>> csmall@xxxxxxxxx
>>
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