On 18 October 2015 at 20:52, Luca Boccassi <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18 October 2015 at 20:43, Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2015-10-18 20:34, Elijah Rum wrote: >>> Since the last update of nvidia-driver in debian sid repos it's unable to >>> unload the nvidia kernel module via modprobe -r. Though bumblebee runs >>> exactly that command when the application run on nvidia card is finished. >>> Meanwhile rmmod works, and it is possible to unload nvidia by hand and >>> restart the bumblebee service to get nvidia card turned off. >> >> Looks like we need a separate profile for the glx alternative to support >> bumblebee with the new nvidia driver configuration scheme. >> >> Is the following correct for nvidia+bumblebee: >> >> * the nvidia kernel module is available >> * but it is *not* autoloaded >> * nouveau is blacklisted >> * Xorg is *not* configured to use nvidia_drv.so > > All correct. > >> With the mesa-diverted profile you use, the nvidia module is *not* >> available any more (i.e. known to modprobe as 'nvidia' - therefore >> modprobe -r does not work) and nouveau is not blacklisted (unless >> bumblebee comes with its own blacklist). > > Bumblebee does its own blacklisting, which includes nouveau [1].
What about adding the aliases to /etc/modprobe.d/bumblebee.conf ? We already have to inject a remove rule in order to support Ubuntu. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
