[elrepo] Bumblebee on CentOS 6

[Earl Ramirez]

> Earl,
>
> To get 3d functionality you need to use optirun.
>
> Is the bbswitch module loaded?, you can check this with lsmod | grep
> bbswitch
>
> Is the bumblebeed service running?, you can check this with ps -ef |
> grep bumble
>
> What kind of vga card do you have, can you post the output of lspci |
> grep -i vga
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Rob
>
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Rob,

Thanks for your time and all of your support.

bbswitch module is loaded.
lsmod | grep bbswitch
bbswitch                5555  0

bumblebee service is up and running
ps -ef | grep bumble
root      3774     1  0 13:44 ?        00:00:00 bumblebeed -D
root      3795  3744  0 13:45 pts/0    00:00:00 grep bumble

Below are the types of vga that are running on my laptop
lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core
Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT
555M] (rev ff)

I have been doing some research and I found out that since I installed
CentOS on the laptop I with the basic drivers it added "nomodeset" as the
kernel argument, therefore it was always load the VESA driver with
1280x1024 screen resolution. Once I removed "nomodeset" I get the 1920x1080
resolution, however I am only getting the nouveau driver and not nvidia
drivers.

Below is the what my grub.conf looks like and it will still load the
nouveau drivers. If I use the xorg.conf I will not boot into the GUI as I
will just get a blank screen.

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_wildfire-LogVol00
rdblacklist=nouveau vga=791
#          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64)
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64 ro
root=/dev/mapper/vg_wildfire-LogVol00 rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD
quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb crashkernel=128M
rd_LVM_LV=vg_wildfire/LogVol00  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us
rd_LVM_LV=vg_wildfire/LogVol07 rd_NO_DM rdblacklist=nouveau vga=791
nouveau.modeset=0
    initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64.img
title CentOS (2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64)
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 ro
root=/dev/mapper/vg_wildfire-LogVol00 rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD
quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb crashkernel=128M
rd_LVM_LV=vg_wildfire/LogVol00  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us
rd_LVM_LV=vg_wildfire/LogVol07 rd_NO_DM rdblacklist=nouveau vga=791
nouveau.modeset=0
    initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64.img

The nouveau driver is also blacklisted in the
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
# ELRepo.org (http://elrepo.org)
# Blacklist file for the nouveau driver in el6
# If the nouveau continues to load, run as root:
# dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

blacklist nouveau

I have also uninstalled the nouveau driver but I am still booting into the
nouveau driver. The only why that I can completely blacklist the nouveau
driver is to use nomodeset to the kernel, however I will be back to square
one as I will get the VESA driver with 1280x1024 resolution.

-- 
Kind Regards
Earl Ramirez
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