I have tried installing Nvidia non-free drivers two different ways,
Clicking “Auto Install Proprietry Driver” in System Settings > Hardware Configuration
From command line with sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300
After rebooting, I don’t see the log in screen. Just a black screen with one line of boot console output.
Switching consoles with Ctrl+Alt+F1 through F7 does not work. I can recover by booting into Manjaro Live CD, using sudo manjaro-chroot -a, then uninstalling the proprietry driver with sudo mhwd -r pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee. System works fine after reboot.
it looks like your card GeForce GT 650M is no longer supported - you need the 340xx drivers for it, which you have to install manually, but first remove the current nvidia drivers that you have installed, check with: mhwd -li
As I used to use the 340x drivers in my laptop, may I suggest you try the Nouveau drivers? I have been using them for many months. They will do any 2D desktop task you want.
Hmm, not sure that is correct. I have a mbp 2009 gt9400m running on nvidia340 and a 2015 gt860m running the video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime with a choice of 390 or 470 in manjaro hardware manager.
The 650m is much closer to that 860m, I’d definitely try 390 for that 2017! laptop. The nvidia site says 418 so the available manjaro 390 or, since it’s a hybrid, the video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-prime should get both intel and nvidia cards working.
Btw, this is a mbp 10,1 ‘mid 2012’, not a 2017! Exactly identifying your model is crucial with apple hardware, even inxi would show it. Unless you crop it off
I installed that 860m only 2 days ago, starting out running (2 screens nicely) only on the intel igpu and nouveau shown as driver for the inactive nvidia.
Manjaro settings manager, install the nidia390-intel-hybrid-prime. Don’t reboot. Remove the video-nvidia (nouveau). Reboot. Install optimus-manager and optimus-manager-qt if you want the panel applet. Reboot. Should look like this only with 390:
$ mhwd -li
> Installed PCI configs:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime 2021.11.04 false PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
What I don’t get is that the mhwd -l does offer 390 and 390-hybrid-bumblebee but not video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-prime which is the one that should work.
Let’s see if someone knows why video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-prime isn’t listed by mhwd. You should still be able to install the necessary packages outside mhwd but wait until @brahma or some of the more knowledgeable ppl chime in.
your laptop isnt a optimus/prime laptop thats why there are no prime drivers available …
and i think the reason you end up in a black screen, is that the bumblebee installs with it bbswitch which causes this …
it would be good to completely purge nvidia drivers/bbswitch/their configs first, and then trying to install the drivers manually, post output from: pacman -Qs 'nvidia|bumblebee|bbswitch' find /etc/X11/ -name "*.conf"
I have a clean install of Manjaro using the latest Plasma Desktop installer. Sorry, noob here, I’ll need some pointers on installing the drivers manually.
I think it technically is but it looks like OSX picks the (‘mac edition’ ?) card. You can run it on i915 or on the nvidia but you have to set it under OSX.
boot into OSX
install gfxcardstatus 2.2.1
select Discrete first ; then select Integrated card (a popup must be displayed in both cases in the top right corner indicating the operation succeeded)
so according to inxi, the proper nvidia are now installed… however nvidia is not active, according to nvidia-smi, so you are still on the intel one…
check the @6x12 post above on how to switch by setting it up under osx
