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Re: switching cards on bumblebee, dell vostro 3500

 

Hi,

Dell Vostro 3X00 have a specific power management relative to the nVidia
card. Can we see you script to enable & disable card please ?

2011/5/27 Oier Mees <oier.mees@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hi,
> I installed bumblebee on Ubuntu 11.04 with nvidia 310m (Vostro 3500) and
> the optirun64 glxgears works succesfully. Since there is a example
> documentation of vostro 3500 provided, I copied and renamed this examples to
> /usr/local/bin/bumblebee-enablecard and disablecard.
> While I run optirun64 glxgears the nvidia module is loaded (checked with
> lsmod) and when I exit glxgears, unloaded. But I get keeping the following
> message while I run optirun64 or I try enabling and disabling the card:
> $ optirun64 glxgears
>  * Starting Bumblebee X server
> bumblebee                                        _PS0 Enabling nVidia Card
> failed (Error: AE_BAD_PARAMETER).
>                                                                          [
> OK ]
> 2731 frames in 5.0 seconds = 546.133 FPS
> 2851 frames in 5.0 seconds = 570.166 FPS
> 2662 frames in 5.0 seconds = 532.364 FPS
> [VGL] ERROR: in readback--
> [VGL]    362: Window has been deleted by window manager
>  * Stopping Bumblebee X server
> bumblebee                                         *
> .
> _PS0 Disabling nVidia Card failed (Error: AE_BAD_PARAMETER).
>
>
> If modprobe and rmmod work, does this mean that turning the card on and off
> also works? What does the error message mean?
> Regards,
> Oier
>
>
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