SRU request: handle EGL alternatives and use different drivers for the LTS stacks

Hello Alberto, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-drivers-common into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-common/1:0.2.91.12 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Hello Alberto, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nvidia-prime into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-prime/0.6.2.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Tested with proposed repository, system could boot to desktop successfully.

Test steps:
1. Enable trusty-proposed in software-properties-gtk
2. sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade -y
3. Reboot system
4. System could boot to desktop successfully, and:
ubuntu-drivers-common: 1:0.2.91.12
nvidia-prime: 0.6.2.1

The verification of the Stable Release Update for ubuntu-drivers-common has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-prime - 0.6.2.1

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nvidia-prime (0.6.2.1) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium

  * debian/postrm.in, prime-select: backport from yakkety's 0.8.4:
    - Add support for EGL alternatives (LP: #1642662).
    - Simplify the logic for enablement by getting rid of legacy code
      that is only relevant to Ubuntu <= 12.04. This is now possible
      thanks to the fact that we allow installing only one binary
      driver at the time.
    - Do not try to remove the old xorg.conf.

 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Mon, 21 Nov 2016 12:17:54 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-drivers-common - 1:0.2.91.12

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ubuntu-drivers-common (1:0.2.91.12) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium

  * Backport from yakkety version 1:0.4.22: gpu-manager.c, gpu-manager.py:
    - Add all the necessary changes for nvidia and hybrid graphics to
      handle the new kernel modules and the EGL alternatives (LP: #1642662).
      Also detect the new amdgpu driver.
    - Leave gdm support disabled, since gdm is still missing a patch.

 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Mon, 21 Nov 2016 12:04:49 +0100

This update broke my system Dell Precision M6800 with Nvidia Quadro K3100M.
prime-select intel/nvidia shows:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/prime-select", line 398, in <module>
    if not switcher.enable_profile(arg):
  File "/usr/bin/prime-select", line 323, in enable_profile
    egl_alternatives = self._get_current_egl_alternative()
  File "/usr/bin/prime-select", line 219, in _get_current_egl_alternative
    return self._get_current_alternative(self._egl_switcher, self._egl_switcher_other)
  File "/usr/bin/prime-select", line 211, in _get_current_alternative
    alternatives[1] = self._simplify_gl_alternative_name(raw_alternative_other)
  File "/usr/bin/prime-select", line 185, in _simplify_gl_alternative_name
    return alternative.split('/')[-2]
IndexError: list index out of range

/var/log/gpu-manager.log:
log_file: /var/log/gpu-manager.log
last_boot_file: /var/lib/ubuntu-drivers-common/last_gfx_boot
new_boot_file: /var/lib/ubuntu-drivers-common/last_gfx_boot
can't access /run/u-d-c-fglrx-was-loaded file
Looking for fglrx modules in /lib/modules/4.4.0-51-generic/updates/dkms
Looking for nvidia modules in /lib/modules/4.4.0-51-generic/updates/dkms
Found nvidia module: nvidia_370_modeset.ko
Is nvidia loaded? yes
Was nvidia unloaded? no
Is nvidia blacklisted? no
Is fglrx loaded? no
Was fglrx unloaded? no
Is fglrx blacklisted? no
Is intel loaded? yes
Is radeon loaded? no
Is radeon blacklisted? no
Is amdgpu loaded? no
Is amdgpu blacklisted? no
Is nouveau loaded? no
Is nouveau blacklisted? yes
Is fglrx kernel module available? no
Is nvidia kernel module available? yes
Vendor/Device Id: 8086:416
BusID "PCI:0@0:2:0"
Is boot vga? yes
Vendor/Device Id: 10de:11b6
BusID "PCI:1@0:0:0"
Is boot vga? no
Skipping "/dev/dri/card1", driven by "i915"
Skipping "/dev/dri/card0", driven by "nvidia-drm"
Skipping "/dev/dri/card1", driven by "i915"
Skipping "/dev/dri/card0", driven by "nvidia-drm"
Skipping "/dev/dri/card1", driven by "i915"
Skipping "/dev/dri/card0", driven by "nvidia-drm"
Found "/dev/dri/card1", driven by "i915"
output 0:
 card1-eDP-1
Number of connected outputs for /dev/dri/card1: 1
Does it require offloading? yes
last cards number = 1
Has amd? no
Has intel? yes
Has nvidia? yes
How many cards? 2
The number of cards has changed!
Has the system changed? Yes
main_arch_path x86_64-linux-gnu, other_arch_path i386-linux-gnu
Current alternative: /usr/lib/nvidia-370-prime/ld.so.conf
Current core alternative: (null)
Current egl alternative: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa-egl/ld.so.conf
Is nvidia enabled? no
Is nvidia egl enabled? no
Is fglrx enabled? no
Is mesa enabled? no
Is mesa egl enabled? yes
Is pxpress enabled? no
Is prime enabled? yes
Is prime egl enabled? no
Is nvidia available? yes
Is nvidia egl available? no
Is fglrx available? no
Is fglrx-core available? no
Is mesa available? yes
Is mesa egl available? yes
Is pxpress available? no
Is prime available? yes
Is prime egl available? no
System configuration has changed
Intel IGP detected
Intel hybrid system
Nvidia driver version 370.28 detected
/sys/class/dmi/id/product_version="00"
/sys/class/dmi/id/product_name="Precision M6800"
1st try: bbswitch without quirks
Loading bbsw...

@Peng

Are you using a pre-installed image or standard Ubunutu?
Please provide your Ubuntu version by "lsb_release -a"
This fix is for Trusty. If you are running Xenial, please file a new bug against your issue.

@Jerry Kao
This is standard Ubuntu 14.04.05 LTS.

For some reason the Nvidia driver doesn't create the egl group for my computer, for example:

$ update-alternatives --config x86_64-linux-gnu_egl_conf
There are 2 choices for the alternative x86_64-linux-gnu_egl_conf (providing /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_EGL.conf).

  Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa-egl/ld.so.conf 500 auto mode
  1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhybris-egl/ld.so.conf 400 manual mode
  2 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa-egl/ld.so.conf 500 manual mode

However the gl group is normal:

$ update-alternatives --config x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf
There are 3 choices for the alternative x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf (providing /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf).

  Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0 /usr/lib/nvidia-370/ld.so.conf 8604 auto mode
* 1 /usr/lib/nvidia-370-prime/ld.so.conf 8603 manual mode
  2 /usr/lib/nvidia-370/ld.so.conf 8604 manual mode
  3 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/ld.so.conf 500 manual mode

That's why this update broke my Optimus and I am stuck in Intel mode. Like I said it's a Nvidia Quadro K3100M system which is not quite common. Could that be related?