Bumblebee failed on F32 beta

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I removed the bumblebee/bbswitch stuff and tried the driver from rpmfusion. However, nvidia fails to load. While booting I see

Fallback to nouveau as nvidia did not load

The kernel module seems to be there

]# modinfo -F version nvidia
440.64

The following packages are installed

]# dnf list installed nvidia
Installed Packages
akmod-nvidia.x86_64 3:440.64-2.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree
kmod-nvidia.x86_64 3:440.64-2.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree
kmod-nvidia-5.6.0-300.fc32.x86_64.x86_64 3:440.64-2.fc32 @@commandline
kmod-nvidia-5.6.2-300.fc32.x86_64.x86_64 3:440.64-2.fc32 @@commandline
nvidia-modprobe.x86_64 3:440.64-1.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree
nvidia-settings.x86_64 3:440.64-1.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 3:440.64-2.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64 3:440.64-2.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64 3:440.64-2.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 3:440.64-2.fc32

What could the problem be?
Thanks.
Eberhard

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You have probably rebooted too early before the kmod where built, if you reboot once again you will switch to nvidia.

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Unfortunately, even after several reboots it does not switch to nvidia. On the boot screen there appears something like ‘no nvidia kernel module’ or so. The modules are definitely there

ls -las /usr/lib/modules/5.6.2-300.fc32.x86_64/extra/nvidia/
total 30540
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Apr 4 00:01 .
4 drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 4096 Apr 4 00:01 …
96 -rw-r–r–. 1 root root 97784 Apr 4 00:01 nvidia-drm.ko
27032 -rw-r–r–. 1 root root 27680080 Apr 4 00:01 nvidia.ko
1448 -rw-r–r–. 1 root root 1479864 Apr 4 00:01 nvidia-modeset.ko
1956 -rw-r–r–. 1 root root 2001040 Apr 4 00:01 nvidia-uvm.ko

Any other idea?
Thanks.
Eberhard

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Another reason is that you still doesn’t have disabled secureboot.

If that’s still not the case, you might need to post the archive generated from nvidia-bug-report.sh to further investigate.

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secureboot is disabled. I had no problems with nvidia on Fedora 31 on this machine. I just saw a thread on the fedora-developers-list titled ’ Nvidia binary drivers fail to install on Fedora 32’. I’m not sure if this is related to the situation here. I ran the nvidia-bug-report.sh but the log is fairly large and I don’t know what to look for.
I would like to ask wuqso are you sure that you have nvidia running on your machine or is it nouveau, i.e. what is the output of ‘lsmod |grep no’ and ‘lsmod |grep nv’.

Thanks.
Eberhard

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Success! After reinstalling xorg-x11-drv-nvidia* and xorg-x11-server-Xorg it is working. I guess the de-installation of fedora-nvidia, bumblebee and bbswitch wasn’t clean.

Thanks for the comments and hints
Eberhard

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Yes, I also guess that the de-installation of bumblebee and bbswitch wasn’t clean (the howto’s at rpmfusion seem also mention this). So I did a clean installation of the F32 and the nvidia driver.

In fact, I have removed xorg-x11-drv-nouveau. In fact, the default installation of mesa and nouveau make my screen nearly freezing after booting. After installation of nvidia driver at rpmfusion. The freezing disappeared and I then removed the nouveau driver.

Here is the output,

$ lsmod | grep nv
67:nvidia_drm 57344 1
68:nvidia_modeset 1118208 1 nvidia_drm
70:nvidia_uvm 1097728 0
91:nvidia 20475904 17 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
94:ipmi_msghandler 118784 2 ipmi_devintf,nvidia
143:drm_kms_helper 241664 2 nvidia_drm,i915
144:nvme 49152 4
145:drm 602112 10 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm,i915
148:nvme_core 114688 6 nvme

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Hi all.

I just installed F32 beta LXQT on a laptop with optimus (nvidia GT 550M + builtin intel).

I installed the nvidia driver 390xx according to the Fedora docs. Fiddled with Nvidia Prime whole day and no success, probably because 390xx series has no Prime support according to Howto/Optimus - RPM Fusion. So, bumblebee and bbswitch is necessary for users like me to use optimus.

However, I then found bbswitch does not run and then googled and found this thread. Is there any direction for filing a bug?