After last update I don't see Intel VGA anymore

[bogdancovaciu]

@mgazzin

One screen works, the other one has the DELL logo.

Did you

@bogdancovaciu

follow this Dell G5 5590-9340 - ArchWiki

?
Apparently your laptop does not have the usual Hybrid iGPU/dGPU hence is not using the video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime, but like i said

@bogdancovaciu

with video-nvidia you get a file /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf that is not compatible with running the iGPU together with the dGPU

So even if you follow the arch linux wiki i pointed out, you might have to delete the default /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf and also the symlink to it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mhwd.conf
and probably you will have to do that every time there is an update for the Nvidia driver/module.

[mgazzin]

Regarding ArchWiki do you mean Graphics paragraph?
I do not have the following files:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mhwd.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-nvidia-tearing.conf

So I can’t create a link to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mhwd.conf

[bogdancovaciu]

@mgazzin

create a link to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mhwd.conf

That is already a symlink to /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf as i already mentioned, is created via MHWD when you install video-nvidia driver.

@mgazzin

I do not have the following files

Of course you don’t. MHWD does not have such profile, that is why the wiki mentions to create them because are specific you your laptop model, or at leas is how someone else figure it out to make it work.

[mgazzin]

This is a comment:

Well, here’s what worked for me:

• Installed latest nvidia-utils (important to do first, because it will update the file to be copied below)
• cp /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
• (for me, maybe not for other people) Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf and add the line ‘Option “PrimaryGPU” “yes”’ in it.
• sudo mkinitcpio -P (assuming that you’ve enabled the nvidia modules, as per the archlinux nvidia guide)
• reboot

from:

archlinux

I think I should have this file:

/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf

I do not have it

[bogdancovaciu]

@mgazzin

I think I should have this file

If your system was Arch Linux. Manjaro has MHWD and that is what installs drivers/modules and configs. That config does not exists in video-nvidia MHWD profile.

@mgazzin

I do not have it

Create it and edit it accordingly !

[mgazzin]

But sorry if I insist, as far as I know files under /usr/share should be provided by the packages.
The file that the documentation talks about at:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dell_G5_5590-9340#Graphics

is another file:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf

under /etc/X11.
My directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d has these files:

# ls -la /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep  3 15:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 21 10:39 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   92 Feb 24  2022 10-amdgpu.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  424 Aug  6 00:59 10-amdgpu-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1099 Nov  7  2021 10-evdev.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  426 Aug  6 00:59 10-intel-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1350 Jul 12 21:42 10-quirks.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   92 Nov 16  2021 10-radeon.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1429 Jan 24  2022 40-libinput.conf

May I take 10-amdgpu-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf for creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf ?
It is the following:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "layout"
    Option "AllowNVIDIAGPUScreens"
EndSection

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "AMDgpu"
    MatchDriver "amdgpu"
    Driver "amdgpu"
EndSection

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Or should I only create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf and put only the following session?

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
    Option "PrimaryGPU" "yes"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

[bogdancovaciu]

@mgazzin

sorry if I insist

Well, sorry if i don’t follow along 100% the discussion you linked on arch forums. Is your duty to trim the information.
You can place the 10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf as suggested in the wiki or as whoever mentioned it on that arch forum. Both places are valid.
You can simply create a blank file with
sudo touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf
or
sudo touch /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf
then edit it and add as per wiki the

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
    Option "PrimaryGPU" "yes"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Or do it from another file you copy and then replace the lines … is up to you, just don’t make typos in it.
Reboot and test your dual screen.

If you have issues with Screen tearing with nVidia driver, as per that wiki, then you create the other file and add those lines to it and reboot, test …

By the way, what did you do when you first installed the system? Did you took notes about that? Or there was nothing special what you did, and worked by default?

[mgazzin]

@bogdancovaciu

By the way, what did you do when you first installed the system? Did you took notes about that?

Listen, it is the first time I have heard about this configuration.
My system is up with Manjaro since more than 2 years.
It was working with two monitors since last week.
Do we need to make this configuration for G5 after the installation? I do not remember I have done, but it was more than two years back…

[bogdancovaciu]

@mgazzin

Listen

I’m reading … but i do get your tone.

@mgazzin

It was working with two monitors since last week

What changed? If you just switched to the 5.19.1 kernel, have you also tried to boot, without touching the configurations, into another kernel? Maybe 5.15 …
Your system is a Laptop with dual GPU

@mgazzin

Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: G5 5590 v: N/A serial: F4J3HX2
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen-9.5 bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU106BM [GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Dell driver: nvidia
    v: 515.65.01 arch: Turing bus-ID: 01:00.0

Is the first time to see such system that does not make use of video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime driver, so after reading that wiki, to me it appeared that to be a special case and that is what it needs to be used, and based on that information, those files are a requirement.

With that said, hope you get it fixed.

[mgazzin]

@bogdancovaciu

sudo touch /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf
then edit it and add as per wiki the

I have created the file:

[dellg5 ~]# ls -ltr /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 257 Sep  3 18:03 /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf
[dellg5 ~]# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf
Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
    Option "PrimaryGPU" "yes"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

and made:

• sudo mkinitcpio -P
• reboot

After reboot nothing changes. Same DELL logo on screen connected to HDMI and Manjaro is on the screen connected to the DisplayPort.
Any good idea?

[mgazzin]

@bogdancovaciu

What changed? If you just switched to the 5.19.1 kernel, have you also tried to boot, without touching the configurations, into another kernel? Maybe 5.15 …

There was a small update, few packages, not the kernel if I remember well

[mgazzin]

If I only have kernel 5.19:

[dellg5 ~]# mhwd-kernel -li 
Currently running: 5.19.1-3-MANJARO (linux519)
The following kernels are installed in your system:
   * linux519

why mkinitcpio is checking 5.17 ?

[dellg5 ~]# mkinitcpio -P
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux517.preset: 'default'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-5.17-x86_64 -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-5.17-x86_64.img
==> ERROR: '/lib/modules/5.17.15-1-MANJARO' is not a valid kernel module directory
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux517.preset: 'fallback'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-5.17-x86_64 -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-5.17-x86_64-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> ERROR: '/lib/modules/5.17.15-1-MANJARO' is not a valid kernel module directory
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux519.preset: 'default'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-5.19-x86_64 -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-5.19-x86_64.img
==> Starting build: 5.19.1-3-MANJARO
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-5.19-x86_64.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux519.preset: 'fallback'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-5.19-x86_64 -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-5.19-x86_64-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 5.19.1-3-MANJARO
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qed
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla1280
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla2xxx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-5.19-x86_64-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful

[brahma]

you have probably some leftovers from the eol 5.17 kernel, so check with:

ls /etc/mkinitcpio.d/*.preset
sudo ls /boot/initramfs-*
sudo ls /boot/vmlinuz-*
sudo ls /usr/lib/modules/*

try switching to the 5.15 lts kernel and see if it helped
check if you can switch your graphics in bios
and until you installed video-linux you were running primary on your nvidia

[mgazzin]

@brahma

try switching to the 5.15 lts kernel and see if it helped

I have just installed 5.15 and it does not help, same problem

@brahma

check if you can switch your graphics in bios

My BIOS should be ok because I have dual boot and Windows works with two monitors

@brahma

and until you installed video-linux you were running primary on your nvidia

I think so…

[brahma]

with bios i meant, some bioses have a option to switch between gpus, and to try it out if you have it
i noticed you have som amd conf there, but you are running intel+nvidia, provide output from:
find /etc/X11/ -name "*.conf"

[mgazzin]

I haven’t found any GPUs option in the BIOS of my Dell G5.

[dellg5 ~]# find /etc/X11/ -name "*.conf"
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-optimus-manager.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
/etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf
[dellg5 ~]# cat /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 515.65.01

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
	Option "NoLogo" "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "COMPOSITE" "Enable"
EndSection

 
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier          "Keyboard Defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard        "yes"
    Option              "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection

[brahma]

so you have installed optimus… did you had it installed when the screens were working, or you installed it afterwards?
post output from:
pacman -Qs optimus

[mgazzin]

@brahma

so you have installed optimus… did you had it installed when the screens were working, or you installed it afterwards?

I have installed few months back for the problem I have with minimized application:

Application always minimized

I have two monitors and manjaro+xfce in my laptop. It happened yesterday that I disconnected one monitor to connect it to my raspberry pi that was not working. ZIM app was on that monitor but I forgot to close it. When I reconnected the second monitor the app did not get maximized and now, every time I start it, it stays minimized only. It is not possible to maximize it again. It there any configuration under ~/.config that I could change?

but it was not solving the issue.

[dellg5 ~]# pacman -Qs optimus
local/optimus-manager 1.4+r12-1
    Management utility to handle GPU switching for Optimus laptops (Git version)

[brahma]

so remove it:
pamac remove optimus-manager
reboot and see if it helped

[mgazzin]

You are a genious!
The problem is now solved!
Thank you very much @brahma !