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[Ariman Mattcom <ariman2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Many thanks Bruno, really helpful ! I'll try to get it working and if 
suceed, let you know.

Cheers,
Ivan



Dn(a 18.07.2012 20:44, Bruno Pagani wrote / napísal(a):
> Hi,
>
> In fact after some searchs I figured out that it's currently hard to 
> get nvidia working on Fedora 17. On the french fedora forum there was 
> an user maintening a repo for bumblebee and driver, but he experienced 
> too much problems with Fedora 17, so that there is no package support 
> for it now. That's user has switched to ArchLinux waiting fo Fedora to 
> fix the problems.
>
> The repo is here : http://downloads.aelys-info.net/fedora/
>
> But you're also having a issue tracked here : 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827167 for Bumblebee in 
> Fedora.
>
> Hope you will find enough informations for installing nvidia with 
> bumblebee.
>
> Else, you have to take care of two things when installing nvidia: do 
> not overwrite Mesa GL librabries, and do not create a xorg.conf for 
> nvidia.
>
> Bruno
>
> Le 18/07/2012 20:26, Ariman Mattcom a écrit :
> > Hi Bruno, thanks for your response. Then it's clear why its not 
> > working :)
> >
> > Fedora hasnt any Bumblebee packages in the repos, I have installed it 
> > from tarball as well as VirtualGL. On the Fedora wiki is mentioned to 
> > use Noveau driver with Bumblebee, but this seems to be outdated.
> >
> > So, back to nVidia drivers. Is there anything special to install the 
> > correctly with Bumblebee ? If I tried to simply install akmod-nvidia, 
> > blacklist noveau and reboot, it failed to start X.
> >
> > Are there any special steps to follow ? eg. uninstall current 
> > Bumblebee, install nVidia drivers and install Bumblebee back ?
> >
> > Many thanks.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ivan
> >
> >
> > Dn(a 18.07.2012 16:50, Bruno Pagani wrote / napísal(a):
> > > Bumblebee is trying to use nouveau which can't work as your card is 
> > > one from the new Kepler generation.
> > >
> > > Please install nvidia proprietary driver via bumblebee-nvidia or 
> > > such (dunno package name on fedora) and try again with this one.
> > >
> > > Le 16/07/2012 11:55, Ariman Mattcom a écrit :
> > > > *Distro:* Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
> > > > *Kernel:* Linux div-laptop 3.4.4-5.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jul 5 
> > > > 20:20:59 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > > > *Manufacturer and model*:
> > > >
> > > > baseboard-manufacturer: Acer
> > > > baseboard-product-name: MA51_HX
> > > > baseboard-version     : Type2 - Board Version
> > > > system-manufacturer   : Acer
> > > > system-product-name   : Aspire M5-581TG
> > > > system-version        : V1.05
> > > > bios-vendor           : Acer
> > > > bios-version          : V1.05
> > > > bios-release-date     : 05/22/2012
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > *Bumblebee version*: lastest, just installed 2 days ago
> > > >
> > > > *Problem:*  optirun is unable to start app with very strange message
> > > >
> > > > [root@div-laptop default]# /opt/bumblebee/bin/optirun -vv xclock
> > > > [DEBUG]Reading file: /opt/bumblebee/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
> > > > [DEBUG]Detected nouveau driver
> > > > [DEBUG]Active configuration:
> > > > [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: 
> > > > /opt/bumblebee/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
> > > > [DEBUG] X display: :8
> > > > [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH:
> > > > [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
> > > > [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy
> > > > [DEBUG]optirun version 3.0 starting...
> > > > [INFO]Response: No - error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to load module 
> > > > "mouse" (module does not exist, 0)
> > > >
> > > > [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to 
> > > > load module "mouse" (module does not exist, 0)
> > > >
> > > > [DEBUG]Socket closed.
> > > > [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
> > > > [DEBUG]Killing all remaining processes.
> > > >
> > > > I'm attaching requested logs.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you in advance.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Ivan