Optimus bumblebee nvidia 331.20 from Overman's repo very very slow on 3.12 kernel

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Hi,

I updated my nvidia drivers for optimus to 331.20 from overman’s repo, after that no matter what i do i am getting mediocre performance from my nvidia GTX 670 MX graphics card.

I have opensuse 12.3, and it was running fine before i updated to 331.20 in terms of performance but every time i use it i have to shutdown the computer since it does not turn the graphics card off even after optirun/primusrun exits, and also, it would not run again after suspend/wake cycle.

My current configuration is:

  • kernel-(3.12.1.1.g999c17a) I have kernel-default-devel, kernel-desktop, kernel-desktop-devel, kernel-devel, kernel-firmware, kernel-source installed)
  • dkms-bbswitch 0.7-2.1 (Overman’s repo)
  • dkms-nvidia 331.20-2.1 (Overman’s repo)
  • x11-video-nvidia 331.20-2.1 (Overman’s repo)
  • x11-video-nvidia-32bit 331.20-2.1 (Overman’s repo)
  • primus 20131027-3.1 (Overman’s repo)
  • primus-32bit 20131027-3.1 (Overman’s repo)
  • libturbojpeg 1.3.0-1.1 (Overman’s repo)
  • bumblebee 3.2.1-14.1 (Overman’s repo)
  • VirtualGL 2.3.2-3.4 (Overman’s repo)
  • VirtualGL-32bit 2.3.2-3.4 (Overman’s repo)

There are no errors, just the performance is very very bad in comparision with previous version on previous kernel 3.11. Has anyone experienced anything like this before? How do i approach this issue? Many many thanks in advance.

Sample run of optirun:


shekhar@sager:~> optirun -b primus -vvv glxspheres
 1582.670062] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
 1582.670479] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.2.1 starting...
 1582.670495] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
 1582.670499] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
 1582.670502] [DEBUG] X display: :8
 1582.670505] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/lib64/nvidia:/usr/lib/nvidia
 1582.670508] [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
 1582.670510] [DEBUG] Accel/display bridge: primus
 1582.670513] [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy
 1582.670516] [DEBUG] VGLrun extra options: 
 1582.670519] [DEBUG] Primus LD Path: /usr/lib64/primus:/usr/lib/primus
 1583.308081] [INFO]Response: Yes. X is active.

 1583.308111] [INFO]Running application using primus.
 1583.308248] [DEBUG]Process glxspheres started, PID 19698.
Polygons in scene: 62464
Visual ID of window: 0xb3
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GTX 670MX/PCIe/SSE2
56.412892 frames/sec - 62.956787 Mpixels/sec
53.487304 frames/sec - 59.691831 Mpixels/sec
58.418771 frames/sec - 65.195349 Mpixels/sec
58.194370 frames/sec - 64.944917 Mpixels/sec
56.201446 frames/sec - 62.720814 Mpixels/sec
59.690561 frames/sec - 66.614666 Mpixels/sec
59.642074 frames/sec - 66.560555 Mpixels/sec
 1598.558042] [DEBUG]SIGCHILD received, but wait failed with No child processes
 1598.558064] [DEBUG]Socket closed.
 1598.558078] [DEBUG]Killing all remaining processes.
shekhar@sager:~>

The same command used to give me ~250 Mpixels/sec before :frowning:

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So, it is working now. Here is what i did:

  1. Removed dkms-nvidia, x11-video-nvidia, x11-video-nvidia-32bit
  2. made sure there are no dkms modules built and installed
  3. removed the nvidia.ko files from /lib/modules/<kernel-versions>/updates/nvidia.ko for all kernel-versions
  4. removed the nvidia.ko files from /lib/modules/<kernel-versions>/weak-updates/nvidia.ko for all kernel-versions

Then installed dkms-nvidia, x11-video-nvidia, x11-video-nvidia-32bit from Overman’s repo

Then i updated xf86-video-modesetting to 0.8.0 (this solves the nvidia driver unload issue that i mentioned, and now it unloads after the optirun/primusrun exits
While on the process, it changed the mesa packages from X11 repo to opensuse update repo.

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Nice you found the solution yourself and thanks for reporting back.

BTW, you are from Nepal I assume?

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Sorry for the awfully late reply, but yes :slight_smile: I am from Nepal.