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Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

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(Re-ordered for clarity.)

On 2021-01-03 04:01, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 01:52:47PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
>> On 2021-01-02 05:23, Darac Marjal wrote:

>>> On 01/01/2021 23:51, David Christensen wrote:
>>>> I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics:

>>>> I have disabled Optimus in the CMOS Setup:
>>>> 
>>>> Video -> Optimus -> Enable Optimus -> unchecked

>>> Optimus has (finally) become natively supported by the 
>>> Proprietary NVIDIA driver recently (it's just a matter of
>>> running an application the environment variable
>>> __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD set to 1 and that process will use the
>>> dGPU).

>> 2021-01-02 13:45:52 root@dipsy ~ # lsmod | sort Module Size  Used
>> by

>> button                 16384  1 nouveau

>> drm                   495616  6 drm_kms_helper,ttm,nouveau 
>> drm_kms_helper        208896  1 nouveau

>> i2c_algo_bit           16384  1 nouveau

>> mxm_wmi                16384  1 nouveau

>> ttm                   126976  1 nouveau

>> video                  49152  3 dell_wmi,dell_laptop,nouveau

>> dell_wmi,wmi_bmof,dell_smbios,dell_wmi_descriptor,mxm_wmi,nouveau

> If you can afford to reinstall the machine: change the option back 
> above. Do an expert text mode install which should work using basic 
> graphics. Do _NOT_ install a desktop environment or anything much 
> more than a> bare text mode only system. Finish the install. Reboot.
> At that point, install the proprietary drivers. Then, and only then,
> use tasksel to install a desktop environment which will pick up the
> Nividia proprietary driver and use that to drive the desktop.

> If nouveau is installed, you then have a significant problem 
> installing the proprietary drivers hence the suggestion to 
> re-install. I found this out the hard way with a laptop a little 
> while ago that was using Optimus :(

As they say -- "there is no substitute for experience".


That sounds like a viable work-around.  Thank you.  :-)


David

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Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-02 01:00 +0100
  Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-01-02 14:30 +0100
    Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-02 23:00 +0100
      Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2021-01-03 16:00 +0100
        Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-04 00:50 +0100
          Re: enable journal (was: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10...) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-01-04 01:00 +0100
            Re: enable journal David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-04 05:10 +0100
          Re: enable persistent journal (was: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10...) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-01-04 01:00 +0100
          Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2021-01-04 02:50 +0100
            Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-04 05:40 +0100
              Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2021-01-04 18:20 +0100
                Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-05 04:50 +0100
                Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-01-05 06:30 +0100
                Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-05 08:20 +0100
                Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-01-05 09:30 +0100
                Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-01-05 11:40 +0100
                Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2021-01-05 22:00 +0100
          Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-01-04 05:40 +0100
      Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-04 00:50 +0100
  Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-05-11 04:50 +0200

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