NVRM: failed to copy vbios to system memory. (Probable regression in ACPI since acpi-handle-hack fix) #628
Description
An user reported an issue with a Legacy Optimus setup, Asus UX50V with NVIDIA Corporation G98M [GeForce G 105M]. I’m opening this issue for him, so that the discussion can take place here and maybe @Lekensteyn for instance could help at some point if ACPI appears to be indeed the root cause.
The error is reported in Xorg.8.log by NVIDIA being unable to load the card and asking to look at dmesg, and they are the following interesting lines:
NVRM: failed to copy vbios to system memory.
NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x30:0xffffffff:747)
NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
NVRM: nvidia_frontend_open: minor 0, module->open() failed, error -5
Note this is not #455, since the first line doesn’t appear in this case. This issue has often been seen as an issue with ACPI, either with the acpi-handle-hack in bbswitch and the corresponding issue upstream.
I think next step is to try with nouveau.
So, @Eccawchkup, could you report the result of the following commands:
ls /etc/modprobe.d/
cat /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
Also, if you’re new to GitHub and Markdown, please take a look at the GitHub markdown syntax for posting logs and results in the good way.