Bug#804139: bumblebee: after recent xorg + nvidia updates in sid, "Cannot access secondary GPU - error"

Luca Boccassi luca.boccassi at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 20:55:58 UTC 2016


On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 22:01 +0200, ø wrote:
> > Can you please check if you are running Xorg as root?
> 
> I'm executing the Xorg process with my user, not root. That was what I
> tried to explain in my message, that since my debian changed to
> rootless Xorg, bumblebee stopped to work. Sorry to not be able to
> phrase it accurately.
> 
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/704
> 
> I have tried the patch suggested on that page [2] on my debian
> packages, but I see no change in the result.
> 
> [2] https://paste.fedoraproject.org/305435/02152145/

Hi,

I actually found that it works for me with a rootless Xorg, but the
legacy wrapper breaks it.

Do you have xserver-xorg-legacy installed?

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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