AORUS 15G - bbswitch: No suitable _DSM call found.

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Description

Pretty much the title; have been trying to get bumblebee working on my computer, and not able to get past the above error called out in dmesg | grep bbswitch. Some Googling has shown reference to some ancient issues with kernel version <3.8.5, and issues with gcc <=4.4. Neither are the case here (GCC is 9.3).

Using bbswitch-dkms:

$ apt list --installed | grep bbswitch
bbswitch-dkms/focal-updates,now 0.8-8ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 [installed]

The optirun command fails (as I imagine is expected if bbswitch is not working). I am able to change the settings to change between performance (discrete) and power-saving (integrated). I just can't use "NVIDIA On-Demand".

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Requested info

• The output of dmesg | grep -C 10 bbswitch:

$  dmesg | grep -C 10 bbswitch
[    9.162367] Bluetooth: hci0: Found Intel DDC parameters: intel/ibt-20-1-3.ddc
[    9.164041] Bluetooth: hci0: Applying Intel DDC parameters completed
[    9.167080] Bluetooth: hci0: Firmware revision 0.0 build 121 week 36 2020
[    9.360121] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
[    9.367336] intel_rapl_common: Found RAPL domain package
[    9.367344] intel_rapl_common: Found RAPL domain core
[    9.367348] intel_rapl_common: Found RAPL domain uncore
[    9.367351] intel_rapl_common: Found RAPL domain dram
[    9.455982] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20201113/nsarguments-61)
[    9.457729] ACPI Warning: \_SB.NPCF._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20201113/nsarguments-61)
[    9.567408] bbswitch: version 0.8
[    9.567424] bbswitch: Found integrated VGA device 0000:00:02.0: \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0
[    9.567439] bbswitch: Found discrete VGA device 0000:01:00.0: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP
[    9.567860] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20201113/nsarguments-61)
[    9.567920] bbswitch: No suitable _DSM call found.
[    9.929598] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[    9.929605] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[    9.929613] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[    9.943157] NET: Registered protocol family 38
[   10.200943] RTL8226B_RTL8221B 2.5Gbps PHY r8169-0-300:00: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-0-300:00, irq=MAC)
[   10.713339] r8169 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: Link is Down
[   11.061059] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1
[   11.122200] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint.
[   11.130553] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver, major device number 508.
[   11.861287] loop11: detected capacity change from 0 to 8

• The kernel version uname -a

$ uname -a
Linux ironcache-Mint 5.11.0-40-generic #44~20.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 26 18:07:44 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

• Your distribution and version (if applicable)
  Linux Mint 20.1

• The version of your Xorg and the driver

$ dpkg -l |grep xserver-xorg-core
ii  xserver-xorg-core                          2:1.20.11-1ubuntu1~20.04.2            amd64        Xorg X server - core server

$ nvidia-smi
Sun Nov 21 17:15:22 2021       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 495.44       Driver Version: 495.44       CUDA Version: 11.5     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
[...]

• Submit your machine information on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/752542; the instructions are listed in the bug description. Summary: install the packages containing dmidecode, acpidump and iasl and then run [...]:
  Getting a timeout error attempting to add a comment on the above. Shared on ProtonDrive here.

• Information about the ACPI handles associated with PCI devices. Since this is a kernel module, you'll need kernel headers, gcc and automake. Commands: [...]:
  Error on running make for the mentioned project:

$ make
make -C /lib/modules/5.11.0-40-generic/build M=/home/ironcache/git/acpi-stuff/acpi_dump_info modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.11.0-40-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/ironcache/git/acpi-stuff/acpi_dump_info/acpi_dump_info.o
/home/ironcache/git/acpi-stuff/acpi_dump_info/acpi_dump_info.c: In function ‘meh_init’:
/home/ironcache/git/acpi-stuff/acpi_dump_info/acpi_dump_info.c:58:15: error: implicit declaration of function ‘proc_create’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
   58 |  acpi_entry = proc_create(DEVNAME, 0444, acpi_root_dir, &fops);
      |               ^~~~~~~~~~~
/home/ironcache/git/acpi-stuff/acpi_dump_info/acpi_dump_info.c:58:13: warning: assignment to ‘struct proc_dir_entry *’ from ‘int’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
   58 |  acpi_entry = proc_create(DEVNAME, 0444, acpi_root_dir, &fops);
      |             ^
/home/ironcache/git/acpi-stuff/acpi_dump_info/acpi_dump_info.c: In function ‘meh_exit’:
/home/ironcache/git/acpi-stuff/acpi_dump_info/acpi_dump_info.c:68:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘remove_proc_entry’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
   68 |  remove_proc_entry(DEVNAME, acpi_root_dir);
      |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:288: /home/ironcache/git/acpi-stuff/acpi_dump_info/acpi_dump_info.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1849: /home/ironcache/git/acpi-stuff/acpi_dump_info] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.11.0-40-generic'
make: *** [Makefile:9: default] Error 2