yoryan / bumblebee-amd-hacks

A set of tools and hacks to run Linux and Bumblebee with Intel/AMD hybrid graphics laptops.

My bio

Just a guy who hangs out in userspace, with interests in homelab operations and video game development. You'll find me playing with a high-level language like Python or TypeScript.

Have a coding, consulting, or modding job? Drop me a mail!

Projects I have authored or contributed to

Homelab

• Mailrise - Software defined SMTP server that emits notifications powered by Apprise.
• Apprise - Migration to Python 3. Native asyncio support.
• DsDDNS - A dynamic DNS client with native support for IPv6.

Other notable

• Otto - A Discord bot for aviation nerds written in F#.
• Don't kill my app! - Research on the DuraSpeed system app killer for Nokia devices.

Gaming

• Wargame modding suite - Support for automated modding with Python scripts.
• Simutrans - Docker images for hosting multiplayer servers.

Gaming / Train Simulator Classic

• Open NEC - Replacement scripts for Northeast Corridor content with a focus on realistic safety systems.
• TypeScriptToLua - Support for Lua 5.0, the dialect used by Train Simulator.
• railworks-tstl-template - Write type safe scripts for Train Simulator with TypeScriptToLua.
• RailSimRemote - Use the RailDriver API over HTTP to read and manipulate control states.

Gaming / Open Rails

• Open Rails - Fixing bugs, adding features, and mainlining forks I'm interested in.
• autotable - Build Open Rails timetable sessions with real world GTFS data.
• openrails.org - Port of the Open Rails website from PHP to Jekyll.

IRL

• Getting you to work, courteously and efficiently. 🚌

bumblebee-amd-hacks's Issues

New ati script -- bumblebee trying to unload radeon module?

Running into a strange issue, wondering if maybe you've come across it.

I upgraded to your new script, followed all the steps indicated, but I'm running into an issue where bumblebeed is trying to unload the radeon module for some reason, and failing, so the virtual Xorg server is timing out. When running bumblebeed -vv:

[   68.364283] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
[   68.364288] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[   68.364293] [DEBUG] X display: :8
[   68.364298] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: 
[   68.364303] [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
[   68.364308] [DEBUG] pidfile: /var/run/bumblebeed.pid
[   68.364313] [DEBUG] xorg.conf file: /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.fglrx
[   68.364318] [DEBUG] ModulePath: 
[   68.364323] [DEBUG] GID name: bumblebee
[   68.364328] [DEBUG] Power method: none
[   68.364333] [DEBUG] Stop X on exit: 0
[   68.364338] [DEBUG] Driver: fglrx
[   68.364342] [DEBUG] Driver module: fglrx
[   68.364347] [DEBUG] Card shutdown state: 
[   68.364483] [DEBUG]Process /sbin/modinfo started, PID 1704.
[   68.364550] [DEBUG]Hiding stderr for execution of /sbin/modinfo
[   68.439858] [DEBUG]SIGCHILD received, but wait failed with No child processes
[   68.439891] [DEBUG]Configuration test passed.
[   68.440216] [INFO]bumblebeed 3.0-51-ga00f533 started
[   68.440274] [INFO]Initialization completed - now handling client requests
[   76.684566] [DEBUG]Accepted new connection
[   76.684970] [INFO]Unloading radeon driver
[   76.685148] [DEBUG]Process rmmod started, PID 1900.
rmmod: ERROR: 'Wait' behavior is targeted for removal from kernel.
We will now sleep for 10s, and then continue.
[   86.730265] [ERROR]Unloading radeon driver timed out.
[   86.730495] [DEBUG]Socket closed.
[   86.740115] [DEBUG]Process with PID 1900 terminated with 15

76.684566 is where I ran ati run glxinfo in another terminal and it lost its mind. Note that when I first tried this radeon was loaded (for some reason, i'm sure I was poking at things), but I since uninstalled it, yet it still happens. This might be something to bring up to the bumblebee guys, but I figured I'd drop by here first. Ever run into this?

Discovered why card could not be turned on with ACPI

(Documented on my blog)

In short, the reason why (on my computer at least) the system crashes when attempting to turn the card back on is that the system had been suspended and resumed while the card was disabled. Solution is to ensure that discrete graphics card is enabled before suspending.

Might be worth adding a note to the README.

Using ati script to run native Steam games

Great work on these scripts, they've been a huge help for running wine games without having to run the AMD card exclusively (allowing multiple monitors more easily, since xrandr hates fglrx).

One thing I've run into though is that I'm unable to adequately run native Steam games (Dota2 and Natural Selection 2 in this instance) with this -- I can run steam using ati steam and then I put ati run %command% or optirun %command% in the launch options of Steam, with no effect.

Is there any way of getting this to work properly?

EDIT: Actually it seems that there's no need for that if I'm already running steam using the ati script -- setting the launch options in Steam is only if you're running it on the intel drivers it seems.