Wednesday, August 28, 2019

nvidia - Sony Vaio Fit SVF1521V1EB Cannot access secondary GPU

As a new Ubuntu user I've tried several distro's including Mint. Everything works except
for my graphics card. The laptop has an GT 740M gpu which has Optimus. Now I've tried a lot of tutorials to the 'Cannot access secondary GPU' issue, including installing bumblebee, primus and a lot of other things including the linux headers. Ive also edited
the .conf file changing the Driver= to Driver=nvidia-current method.I'm running 13.10



Nothing works, sometimes I get a black screen, sometimes nothing happens. But I always end up with the same error:



[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver
[ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.



when Using the lspci | grep 3D command I get: 01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208M [GeForce GT 740M] (rev a1)




Opening my /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia I get:



Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
Option "AutoAddGPU" "false"
EndSection

Section "Device"

Identifier "DiscreteNvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"

# If the X server does not automatically detect your VGA device,
# you can manually set it here.
# To get the BusID prop, run `lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'` and input the data
# as you see in the commented example.
# This Setting may be needed in some platforms with more than one
# nvidia card, which may confuse the proprietary driver (e.g.,

# trying to take ownership of the wrong device). Also needed on Ubuntu 13.04.
BusID "PCI:01:00:0"

# Setting ProbeAllGpus to false prevents the new proprietary driver
# instance spawned to try to control the integrated graphics card,
# which is already being managed outside bumblebee.
# This option doesn't hurt and it is required on platforms running
# more than one nvidia graphics card with the proprietary driver.
# (E.g. Macbook Pro pre-2010 with nVidia 9400M + 9600M GT).
# If this option is not set, the new Xorg may blacken the screen and

# render it unusable (unless you have some way to run killall Xorg).
Option "ProbeAllGpus" "false"

Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "UseEDID" "false"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "none"
EndSection


I came across this issue when I tried installing Dead Space 2 using PlayOnLinux. It kept giving me the error that my laptop didn't meet the required specifications.




Remember, I've tried a lot of tutorials and google and nothing worked, so if anyone could give me a detailed explanation and fix in such a way I can understand;
This is no longer an annoying issue, I want seriously want to know how to properly troubleshoot and fix these kind of problems ;)



Thanks a lot in advance!

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