Cannot access secondary GPU

[daniel-hatzory]

Hello everyone!
Today I installed ubuntu on my dell inspiron n5110 laptop. It overheated so i checked a solution in google. The reason was for that was that my laptop has nvidia optimus feature in it. So i downloaded bumblebee to fix this.

Now, when I run anything with optirun in the terminal, I get an error "Cannot access secondary GPU". If I type "optirun -vv -debug bash", I get this:

"daniel@daniel-Inspiron-N5110:~$ optirun -vv -debug bash
[ 1745.822291] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 1745.822848] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.2.1 starting...
[ 1745.822865] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
[ 1745.822870] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 1745.822875] [DEBUG] X display: ebug
[ 1745.822880] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/lib/nvidia-304:/usr/lib32/nvidia-304
[ 1745.822884] [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
[ 1745.822888] [DEBUG] Accel/display bridge: auto
[ 1745.822893] [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy
[ 1745.822897] [DEBUG] VGLrun extra options: 
[ 1745.822901] [DEBUG] Primus LD Path: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/primus:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/primus
[ 1745.822932] [DEBUG]Using auto-detected bridge virtualgl
[ 1745.843908] [INFO]Response: No - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. 
[ 1745.843928] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the

[ 1745.843933] [DEBUG]Socket closed.
[ 1745.843960] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
[ 1745.843968] [DEBUG]Killing all remaining processes."

Google doesn't provide me any solution. Any ideas?
Thanks, Daniel

[leodido]

Hi,

I also have this error. I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 64bit (Intel HD 4000, Nvidia 650)

I've installed with:

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends bumblebee primus primus-libs-ia32

I have the same:

optirun -vv -debug bash
[  601.743386] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[  601.743645] [INFO]Configured driver: nouveau
[  601.743769] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.2.1 starting...
[  601.743777] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
[  601.743780] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[  601.743783] [DEBUG] X display: ebug
[  601.743786] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: 
[  601.743789] [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
[  601.743793] [DEBUG] Accel/display bridge: auto
[  601.743796] [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy
[  601.743799] [DEBUG] VGLrun extra options: 
[  601.743802] [DEBUG] Primus LD Path: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/primus:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/primus
[  601.743845] [DEBUG]Using auto-detected bridge primus
[  601.856712] [INFO]Response: No - error: [XORG] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] failed to set drm interface version.

[  601.856734] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] failed to set drm interface version.

[  601.856741] [DEBUG]Socket closed.
[  601.856761] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
[  601.856768] [DEBUG]Killing all remaining processes.

[amonakov]

@leodido, that's a different error. Unless you know what you're doing, you probably want to install bbswitch and nvidia drivers. Note, --debug option needs two dashes, not one.

[leodido]

@amonakov thanks, but I would like to use nouveau, not the nvidia drivers ..

I've purged the PPA and installed this way:

sudo apt-get install bumblebee bbswitch-dkms virtualgl virtualgl-libs-ia32 primus primus-libs-ia32 linux-headers-generic

But I continue to get errors.

optirun glxspheres

gives me:

[ 1312.215114] [ERROR] Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] failed to set drm interface version.
[ 1312.215190] [ERROR] Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

Running:

primusrun glxspheres

gives me:

primus: fatal: Bumblebee daemon reported: error: [XORG] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] failed to set drm interface version.

What am I doing wrong?

[ArchangeGabriel]

@leodido What computer is this? If the NVIDIA card is a new one, nouveau might not support it and then you need to install bumblebee-nvidia and nvidia proprietary driver.

@Danielhatzor What distro? Could you provide X.org log and kernel.log related to this issue?

[leodido]

@ArchangeGabriel The NVIDIA card is a GeForce GT 650M. The laptop a Asus N56VZ.

lspci | grep "VGA"

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 650M / GTX 660M LE] (rev ff)

[WhiteWolf1776]

I have almost the same box... VJ instead of VZ... and the latest nvidia driver with bumblebee is flawless... the nouveau did nothing but hose me tho. I had to blacklist it and install the proprietary driver to get things working.

[ArchangeGabriel]

So this is a Kepler card, you can't make it work with nouveau. You have to install bumblebee-nvidia and a quite recent nvidia driver.

[ksatyaki]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 540M](rev a1)

I think my card is officially supported by Nouveau. I still get this error. Is there a way out?

[ArchangeGabriel]

@ksatyaki Please open a new issue with more details (logs), you’re problem can’t be the same.