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[Peter Wu <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Oliver,

On Friday 07 June 2013 08:22:01 Oliver Sampson wrote:
> 'm running bumblebee on Fedora 17 with Nvidia drivers on a NonBigName
Clevo makes barebones which are bought buy your "NonBigName" company. I have a 
BTO P-BOOK 17CL34 (based on Clevo B7130) myself.

> laptop and after the latest bumblebee-nvidia rpm update, the automatic 
> bbswitch throttling appears broken, and optirun glxgears gives the 
> following error:
> 
> [ 1901.061421] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not 
> load GPU driver
> 
> [ 1901.061488] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
> 
> Which is slightly different from the ones shown on the Troubleshooting 
> page, and before I go tweaking things with the hopes of making it work 
> like it used to work, I thought I'd report the problem.
> 
> Distro: Fedora 17
> Kernel: Linux Amadeus 3.8.13-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 13 13:36:17 
> UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> Manufacturer and model:
> baseboard-manufacturer: CLEVO CO.
> baseboard-product-name: W150ER
> baseboard-version     : N/A
> system-manufacturer   : CLEVO CO.
> system-product-name   : W150ER
> system-version        : N/A
> bios-vendor           : American Megatrends Inc.
> bios-version          : 4.6.5
> bios-release-date     : 04/25/2012
> Bumblebee Version: optirun (Bumblebee) 3.2.1
> 
> Let me know what information I can give you to try and get this solved.

Well, have you looked at the kernel logs already?

[123.939810] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
[123.939844] vgaarb: device changed decodes: 
PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=none,decodes=none:owns=none
[123.939930] NVRM: The NVIDIA GPU 0000:01:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:0fd1)                                                                                                                                                               
[123.939930] NVRM: installed in this system is not supported by the 319.23                                                                                                                                                       
[123.939930] NVRM: NVIDIA Linux driver release.  Please see 'Appendix                                                                                                                                                            
[123.939930] NVRM: A - Supported NVIDIA GPU Products' in this release's                                                                                                                                                          
[123.939930] NVRM: README, available on the Linux driver download page                                                                                                                                                           
[123.939930] NVRM: at www.nvidia.com.                                                                                                                                                                                            
[123.939957] nvidia: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -1                                                                                                                                                                  
[123.940014] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s).                                                                                                                                                              
[123.940016] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized! 

Can you try the following:
- disable bbswitch, reboot, try optirun; or
- downgrade nvidia

Regards,
Peter