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[Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for your mail, hopefully your new machines won't be as problematic
then ;)

Peter

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Christopher Small <metasoarous@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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