Hi Bruno,
What do you think of blacklisting nvidia and nouveau by default? The
driver is unloaded
anyway when starting bumblebee. This change will also solve race
conditions with
nvidia being loaded in the middle of bumblebee's startup. There is a
little regression
chance since the driver cannot be used anyway on boot time. If it
turns out to be
an issue, the user can remove the blacklist and/ or manually modprobe it.
Peter
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi Bruno,
Some feature/bugfix patches (that 2k trunk-....patch file) may be
added to lucid and natty too,
but I the ...-ia32 changes do not make sense as the lucid and
natty do not support multiarch
and those virtualgl packages do already contain both the 32-bit
and 64-bit libraries.
We provide libjpeg-turbo 1.1.1 for lucid+natty in the testing
repository (which is our
sandbox for building) indeed.
It just occurred to me that Ubuntu ships updated drivers with
nvidia-current-updates.
The FAQ in the Ubuntu wiki probably needs to be updated that if
you use that
package, KernelDriver=nvidia-current-updates must be set.
LibraryPath and
ModulePath have to be adjusted in a similar way.
Now, I'll prepare a change for the preinst script to copy users
from adm, admin and
sudo to the group "bumblebee" and test it.
You can just copy the acpi-call package from testing to stable.
Regards,
Peter
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Bruno Pagani
<bruno.n.pagani@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:bruno.n.pagani@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi Peter,
Ok for the uninstall behavior, that's correct.
How would you update virtualgl for lucid and natty then ?
Providing libjpeg-turbo is done by our repo, isn't it ?
Copying adm, sudo(ers) and admin to bumblebee looks fine.
I will update acpi-call too for people who needs it.
Bruno
Le 29/04/2012 19:03, Lekensteyn a écrit :
Hi Bruno,
I've just booted a fresh Live session of Kubuntu 12.04 AMD64
and can confirm that the new packages are
working properly. I'll do another test with Ubuntu 12.04 I
think.
The "little problem with uninstall" is actually the expected
behavior. If you install Bumblebee accidentally
on a system with no Optimus, the configuration should not be
forced to use the Mesa libs. Purging
nvidia-current is the correct behavior.
virtualgl depends on libturbojpeg because the static library
could not be linked into the shared
librrfaker.so library from virtualgl. Note: this change is
**not** directly backportable to versions older
than Oneiric because natty and older do not have
libjpeg-turbo in the official repositories nor
support for Multi-Arch.
A workaround for the adduser stuff is by setting the default
group to "adm" or "sudo" thus
avoiding adding the default user to a group. This is really
bad practise though as these
groups have little relevance with bumblebee. What about
copying the adm ("may read
system logs"), sudo (sudoers users in 12.04 and later),
admin (sudoers in 11.10 and before)
members to bumblebee? That works in a default installation.
Summarizing the packages that needs to be copied to stable
(letters indicate ubuntu versions):
- virtualgl: o,p (oneiric,precise)
- bumblebee: l, n, o, p (no maverick, support is dropped)
- bbswitch: lnop (copy from precise) (aside, I just copied p
-> lno in testing)
libjpeg-turbo is dropped from precise and later since the
repositories already contain this
package. We may drop it from oneiric too for the same
reason, but let's keep it as it.
acpi-call is useful for testing and I know that some are
still using it to trigger a
switch of the card for certain hardware. Let's copy 1.1.1
from testing to stable, lnop?
Peter
PS. I'm cc'ing this to the bumblebee ml as the public may be
interested in this conversation
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Bruno Pagani
<bruno.n.pagani@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:bruno.n.pagani@xxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:
Hi Peter,
Did saw that you've updated the packages. I did some
test, all worked fine. Update is OK, new installation on
amd64 does also install i386 appropriate libs, so, looks
perfect for me. Just faced a little problem with
uninstall, I lost 3D acceleration on Intel chip, but
uninstalling nvidia-current solved that.
I've noticed that virtualgl now depends on
libjpeg-turbo. I suppose this is necessary ? Else, I
find still clumsy this need to adduser. Don't we have
any alternatives for that ?
If everything is OK for you too, I'm going to create
missing packages for other distributions, update all
logs and script and upload those.
Bruno
