Hi all, My first post here. I’m having an issue getting an external Nvidia (RTX 2070) egpu to work with latest stable Manjaro KDE (5.9 kernel) on my Dell Precision laptop (w/ Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 for display).
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My intention is to be able to install Nvidia driver, Nvidia CUDA SDK, and utilize the egpu (via thunderbolt) for deep learning model training. The Intel gpu on-board will handle display. The external Nvidia card will not be utilized for display at all!
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Here’s what I did so far:
a. Using system settings I can see external Nvidia card listed (correctly identified model RTX 2070).
b. So, I installed Nvidia latest proprietary driver 455.xx, it installed successfully.
c. Running nvidia-settings from terminal throws an error, here:
$ sudo nvidia-settings
ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system
Here is the output of
$ inxi -Fza
System: Kernel: 5.9.1-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.9-x86_64 root=UUID=c511d03a-584a-4bcd-882e-e025906bacd0 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 tk: Qt 5.15.1 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Precision 7540 v: N/A serial: Chassis: type: 10 serial:
Mobo: Dell model: 0XMC3F v: A00 serial: UEFI: Dell v: 1.1.3 date: 06/21/2019
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 76.8 Wh condition: 76.8/97.0 Wh (79%) volts: 12.6/11.4 model: SMP DELL VRX0J8B type: Li-poly
serial: status: Full
CPU: Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158)
stepping: A (10) microcode: D6 L2 cache: 12.0 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 62431
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800
9: 800 10: 801 11: 800 12: 800
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3e9b
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2070] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia v: 455.28 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
bus ID: 07:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1f02
Device-3: Sunplus Innovation Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-11:3 chip ID: 1bcf:28c4
serial:
Display: x11 server:X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: modesetting FAILED: nvidia unloaded: intel,nouveau
alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") diag: 395mm (15.5")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.8 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a348
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.1-1-MANJARO
Network: Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel port: efa0 bus ID: 00:1f.6
chip ID: 8086:15bb
IF: eno1 state: down mac:
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 4000 bus ID: 6e:00.0 chip ID: 8086:2723
IF: wlp110s0 state: up mac:
Drives: Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 66.14 GiB (13.9%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: SSDPEMKF512G8 NVMe INTEL 512GB size: 476.94 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: rev: 7002 scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 339.34 GiB size: 333.01 GiB (98.14%) used: 66.09 GiB (19.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
Swap: Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0
Info: Processes: 311 Uptime: 22m Memory: 31.12 GiB used: 2.06 GiB (6.6%) Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0
Packages: pacman: 1323 lib: 348 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole inxi: 3.1.05
Please advise on what I need to do. Thanks in advance.