I’ve uninstalled video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime and installed video-nvidia and nothing changed. The system still does not boot:
$ sudo mhwd -li
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
video-nvidia 2021.11.04 false PCI
Warning: No installed USB configs!
I’ve tested all the combinations I could think of. Like kernel 6.1.12-1, 6.0.19-4, and 5.15.94-1. In all cases, once I install the Nvidia driver, the SDDM fails to show. Right now, I settled on 6.1. I appreciate any help.
More info. I’ve tried to follow the ArchWiki without any success. In there, it says I should install the driver and then remove kms from the HOOKS array in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. And then restart. First of all, I have no kms in that file and when I restart, the system does not get to sddm. So I’m stuck.
For the sake of completeness, I connected the device while there was no driver installed (so the OS would boot) and then installed the video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime driver. Then I ran the following command to capture the info on the GPU as well:
first things first: you’re running wayland instead of x11. that does not work properly. switch to x11 otherwise you’ll be stuck whatever you try.
second, you installed the nouveu driver instead of the propietary nvidia-driver. that is the second mistake in this installation. nouveau doesn’t play that well as it should.
Can you please tell me how? I tried uninstalling the Wayland. First, it complained about dependencies, then when I tried to uninstall it with all its dependencies, it listed almost all the software I have on my machine to be uninstalled. How can I uninstall the Wayland and keep my computer?
is this a fresh installation ? if so i would recommend to do a complete new installation and use the option to install it with the non-free driver. this is a weird combination with wayland and nouveau that will not work with your nvidia and also dual-gpu combination. there is too much to change manually now and i expect that a fresh install is the faster and better solution.
I’ve had this Manjaro for 18 months now and it’s not so easy for me to do a fresh re-installation. I’ll give it a couple of more days and if I couldn’t find a way to make it work, then I’ll consider a fresh installation. Thanks.
Nowhere in the inxi output is showing wayland running.
First post:
Second post:
And is the same on last post. The output
is present in all systems now even if running Xorg, some applications depend on that.
In all the cases, your monitor is still connected to the iGPU, so even when the GPU is connected and with the drivers installed, the iGPU will not remain the primary one, hence fail to show any UI. That is my take on it, since is a Desktop PC.
Check if the BIOS is capable to have both GPU’s active at the same time, or, what i would do, is disable the iGPU from BIOS, connect the monitor to the dGPU, boot by using nomodeset kernel boot parameter and then install the video-nvidia driver.
I disconnected the HDMI from iGPU and only left the DisplayPort connected to the dGPU. Then booted to BIOS and there, I selected PEG (apparently it stands for "PCI E GPU). The other two options were Auto and iGPU.
After a restart, since I have no driver installed yet, the SDDM loads and I can log in using the dGPU. This time, when I use the “Auto Install” feature, it installs video-nvidia instead of the hybrid one. In fact, the hybrid one is not even listed as an option. Anyways, after installing the driver and a reboot, the process halts exactly before loading SDDM, just like before.
BTW, even though right now I’m trying to make sure everything works but my long-term plan is to use the iGPU for the display and dGPU for CUDA. I thought I should mention this.
you need the ibt parameter since you are on intel+nvidia system… and the hybrid is not detected, since you disabled the intel gpu in bios, and you will now run only on nvidia…
Since you managed to boot only with the dGPU, no need for it then. Next step, in order to make use od the dGPU, just installing the video-nvidia should work.
On a desktop PC there is no advantage on using the iGPU and dGPU, unless you have so many Monitors that you need all those ports. Also, with the video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime driver on a desktop PC you lose some of the options in Nvidia X Settings, and if i’m not mistaken, also the performance is affected.
I think there’s been a misunderstand and you missed one of sentences. Even though I managed to used the dGPU to boot and use the OS before I install the driver, as soon as I installed the driver and restarted, the exact same problem happened. Basically, I’m stuck again.
Did you try removing the video-nvidia and use the video-nvidia-470xx instead? Does your system behave the same? Have you tried different port to connect your monitor?
If you look at my past comments and suggestions regarding Nvidia and drivers/config i usually mention to enable early kms and pay attention to the config and where is saved, and never create a separate xorg.conf file. Other than that, if you want to test the nomodeset before or after installing the proprietary driver, simply at Grub boot menu press e to enter edit mode and replace the quiet with nomodeset and then press F10 to save and continue booting. If that works you can add permanently that parameter the same way by editing /etc/default/grub and then run sudo update-grub
I use GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nvidia-drm.modeset=1" on my end, and in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf i use:
When you modify it it requires you to run from terminal: sudo mkinitcpio -P
and then sudo update-grub
In principle there should be no issues, as Nvidia latest driver should have sorted out all the issues with some of the previous 5xx series drivers, but like i said, maybe you can use successfully the video-nvidia-470xx
I’ll be testing your suggestions in a bit but before that, some info that I hadn’t shared before:
When the system halts, it’s showing the text mode and is about to switch to the graphical mode which does not happen. What I mean by that is that the display port is connected to the correct port and working. It’s the driver that crashes the system as soon as it’s about to be loaded (at least that’s my feeling). And I would like to call it a crash since I cannot even go to TTY (alt+ctrl+F2 does not work).
After lots of hassle and testing with different OSs, including Manjaro, Fedora, and (god please forgive me) Windows 11, the same behavior (more or less) was observed. As soon as I installed the driver all the OSs failed to load. Then I had no choice but to assume it was a hardware issue. And it was. I had to remove the dGPU riser to fix it.
Thanks, everyone for their help. Sorry, I wasted your time.