Bug#802246: Can't modprobe -r nvidia, rmmod works

[Luca Boccassi]

On 18 October 2015 at 22:01, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> On 2015-10-18 22:23, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>> What about adding the aliases to /etc/modprobe.d/bumblebee.conf ? We
>> already have to inject a remove rule in order to support Ubuntu.
>
> No way. bumblebee should not know anything about the module packaging
> internals besides "there is nvidia.ko that I can (un)load".

Good point.

I installed 340.93-5 on my laptop with optimus. Any other solution you
would like me to try out?

Another solution would be scrapping the bumblebee patch we ship to use
modprobe instead of rmmod, but it would require fixing the code to
remove the nvidia-uvm (and in the future nvidia-modeset too),
otherwise it would break for Cuda users, which is the reason we
introduced the patch in the first place.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi