Setup Guide: ASUS U36Jc - Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha3 64-bit

[lonefoxking]

Hello...

first of all thank you for your effort, its really amazing what u did.

The thing is I followed on step by step on disabling the nVidia, but now when I load kubuntu i get the main screen loading then after a while before the login page shows up, the screen turns black and there is nothing i can do, I logged to fail safe, tried to revert the settings by deleting all the files i created and re-editing the files, but nothing... i still get this black screen.

How can I revert or fix this?? can you please help?

cheers

[Trevice]

in order to turn off the nvidia...did you use acpi_call, asus-switcheroo or bumbleble?

make sure you are not using two methods at the same time, and if you arent using bumblebe the nvidia driver is not instaled

[lonefoxking]

Help...

I tried deleting xconf - didint work

apt-get remove nvidia-current
apt-get install nvidia-current - didnt work

I even reinstalled xserver and xorg.. .but nothing

I only get kubuntu loading then a black screen

[DeeKey]

in order to turn off the nvidia...did you use acpi_call, asus-switcheroo or bumbleble?

make sure you are not using two methods at the same time, and if you arent using bumblebe the nvidia driver is not instaled

As far as I understand everything good is merging with bumblebee.
( http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspo...automatic.html )
I have submitted the issue:
https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee/issues/175

There is a merge request which will add asus-switcheroo to bumblebee. It is still under way. Tried it myself, but it does not work yet.

Need correct acpi_call parameter. Provided one does not work for me:
echo _PS0 $(acpi_call "_SB.PCI0.PEG1.GFX0.DOFF")

Error: AE_BAD_PARAMETER

Maybe someone knows the correct sequence?

[DeeKey]

Disabling and enabling nVidia card works!
One needs only bumblebee both for using optimus and turning off/on nVidia.
asus-switcheroo was merged with bumblebee recently.

There are still some bugs in installation script, but most impatient can use it right away. Here is the instruction:

To use it copy sources from here:
https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee

tar xvf the sources
go to the folder and run ./install.sh
after installation copy some scripts

sudo cp ./install-files/bumblebee-enablecard.K42Jc.K52Jc.N53Jf.N53Jg.N71JV.N73JF.P52 JC.U30JC.U33JC.U35JC.U36JC /usr/local/bin/bumblebee-enablecard

sudo cp ./install-files/bumblebee-disablecard.K42Jc.K52Jc.N53Jf.N53Jg.N71JV.N73JF.P5 2JC.U30JC.U33JC.U35JC.U36JC /usr/local/bin/bumblebee-disablecard


sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/bumblebee-enablecard
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/bumblebee-disablecard


To test run:
sudo bumblebee-disablecard
grep rate /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
sudo bumblebee-enablecard
grep rate /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
sudo bumblebee-disablecard

Rate values should be less after disabling nVidia.

[DeeKey]

Bumbleebee is working for me:
- it is possible to turn on/off nVidia card (OFF by default)
- it is possible to use nVidia for running apps (tested only on glxgears)

Propose to test and if successful edit the 1-st page guide section

Disable NVidia GPU/NVidia Optimus with something like this:

To install the support form Optimus follow the procedure:
1) download source codes of bumblebee from here
2) unpack the tarball and cd to the unpacked folder
3) run
sudo install.sh

NB! As acpi-call and asus-switcheroo are merged to the code of bumblebee one doe's not need them.
If mentioned programs were installed previously uninstall them.

[Menthu_Rae]

Bumbleebee is working for me:
- it is possible to turn on/off nVidia card (OFF by default)
- it is possible to use nVidia for running apps (tested only on glxgears)

Propose to test and if successful edit the 1-st page guide section

Disable NVidia GPU/NVidia Optimus with something like this:

I don't really want to run bumblebee/etc on my laptop just yet - if someone is willing to write up some more detailed instructions in the format of my first post - I will happily merge them

[or3x]

It's really great to see how the support for optimus has developed over the last months, I think it's an awesome example of the power of open source and hard working developers. Thank You!
I'm almost certain I'm getting this laptop now, i just wanna know one thing;
Is the HDMI working properly with bumblebee?

Thanks, or3x

[sarahsharp]

Let's fix some issues with the USB buses and also the NVidia/Intel GPUs when undertaking suspend/resume operations.

    # Switch USB 3.0 buses off
    for bus in $BUSES3; do
        echo -n $bus | tee /sys/bus/pci/drivers/xhci_hcd/unbind
    done

* Fix USB3.0 Port (thanks to DeeKey)

To fix the USB 3.0 (Fresco Logic FL1000G) port, we need to update the parameters when launching Ubuntu via GRUB.

pci=nomsi,noaer

Why are you unbinding the xHCI driver on suspend? Does the Fresco Logic host controller not support suspend? It should.

I'm the USB 3.0 kernel maintainer, and I'd like to help get out-of-the-box support in Natty for your host controller. Can you please contact the Linux USB mailing list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org> and cc me (Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>) when you have issues with USB? That way we can fix your problems rather than you having to work around them.

I'm looking for someone to test the following patch against the stock Ubuntu 11.04 kernel, *without* adding the pci=nomsi to their boot parameters:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=130704257816957&w=2

That should make it so you don't need to boot with the pci=nomsi parameter. I don't know if that will help with any suspend issues you are experiencing.

[phibuntu]

Same problem here? USB 3.0 worked on 10.10, but does no longer on 11.04:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ht=usb+3+11.04