I recently installed a Nvidia GeForce 1050 ti in a 2014 Dell Optiplex 7010 with an Intel i7 processor. The resolution with nouveau works great but blender 4.x won’t start. I installed the non free driver using mhwd and now x11 won’t start and the resolution is locked at 640 x 480. My monitor is an Asus VE278 which is a 27 in. Blender 4.1 starts but at this res is unusable. Please advise on how to fix this.
- video-nvidia
- video-nvidia-470xx
- video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime
- video-hybrid-amd-nvidia-470xx-prime
Which one?
Check the Announcements. Hint: Your system is now a hybrid gpu system.
To show us what you have and whats available:
mhwd -li -l
For system information in general:
inxi -Farz
And here is a guide for all the things like formatting code;
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I tried both video-nvidia and video-nvidia-470 neither work right. video-nvidia is what is installed atm.
mhwd -li -l
Installed PCI configs:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-nvidia 2024.05.03 false PCI
Warning: No installed USB configs!
> 0000:01:00.0 (0300:10de:1c82) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-nvidia 2024.05.03 false PCI
video-nvidia-470xx 2023.03.23 false PCI
video-nvidia-390xx 2023.03.23 false PCI
video-linux 2024.05.06 true PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
video-vesa 2017.03.12 true PCI
inxi -Farz
System:
Kernel: 6.9.9-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 14.1.1 clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.9-x86_64
root=UUID=beb4fe59-329a-4bc9-9c7f-508c5fcf7ba1 rw
nvidia-drm.modset=1 quiet splash apparmor=1 security=apparmor
udev.log_priority=3 nouveau.modest=0
Desktop: GNOME v: 46.3.1 tk: GTK v: 3.24.43 wm: gnome-shell
tools: gsd-screensaver-proxy dm: GDM v: 46.2 Distro: Manjaro
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex 7010 v: 01
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 6
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0GY6Y8 v: A03 serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: OptiPlex 7010 uuid: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell
v: A29 date: 06/28/2018
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-3770 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Ivy Bridge gen: core 3 level: v2 built: 2012-15
process: Intel 22nm family: 6 model-id: 0x3A (58) stepping: 9
microcode: 0x21
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled
cache: L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1889 high: 3900 min/max: 1600/3900 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1613 2: 1600
3: 1600 4: 3900 5: 1600 6: 1600 7: 1600 8: 1600 bogomips: 54297
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
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: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass
disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and
__user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional;
IBRS_FW; STIBP: conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not
affected; BHI: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Also for some reason the output to my monitor when using HDMI doesn’t use the full monitor. It is like the display is in a box inside my screen. When I switch back to VGA Manjaro freezes on the loading screen now and it didn’t do that before I tried HDMI.
This isn’t graphics related but after posting I realized that it says that my i7 only has 1 core and two threads. I’m pretty sure that in fedora it registered as having four cores. Why would only one core register?
Where is fbdev=1 ?
That is not a full output from inxi.
(for example there is no GPU output)
But I am thinking you should now have a hybrid setup (that i7 has integrated gfx), but you have force installed only the nvidia driver.
You should start over by undoing this.
Something like
sudo mhwd -i pci video-linux
sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia
(reboot)
Check the mhwd availability again. You are looking for some sort of hybrid profile.
mhwd -l
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That is all that inxi -Farz put out
I don’t know. Where should it be?
Everything I read shows that hybrid setups are only for laptops. This is a desktop. Also my integrated Intel card is Intel HD 4000. This is the whole reason I bought the dedicated GPU. The integrated Intel card is not supported by Blender 4.x Blender 4 crashes on startup when using either the integrated GPU or the dedicated GPU on nouveau.
I reinstalled Manjaro. I’m hoping that dropping down to 390.xx will resolve the issue.
So it automatically boots into x11 now and blender works.
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I have a new issue. System windows aren’t rendering any text. I can’t tell what’s what. cat /etc/profile.d/qt-theming.sh shows the following:
# To use QGnomePlaform with AdwaitaQt style, comment out the following keys:
# Available options: gtk2, gnome, kde, qt5ct, xcb
# Note: Don't use in combination with QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE
export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="qt5ct"
# Available styles: HighContrastInverse, HighContrast, Adwaita-HighContrastInverse,
# Adwaita-HighContrast, Adwaita-Dark, Adwaita, kvantum-dark, kvantum, qt5ct-style,
# Windows, Fusion
# Note: Don't use in combination with QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME
#export QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=""
Is this the file I need to edit and if so what settings do I enter?
This issue may deserve its own thread, assuming the original issue(s) have been resolved. 
This might be an issue? 
Back up the file first, then try commenting that line out. If that doesn’t help, maybe instead change the 5 to a 6 (make sure that qt6ct is installed first though: sudo pacman -Syu qt6ct) … also worthy of note, neither package is installed on this system.
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Thank you. I think that I’ve narrowed it down to an issue with pango. I’ve installed kde plasma and that works as far as rendering text goes but blender doesn’t render.
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That graphic card will run with the latest nvidia drivers in Manjaro.i have a GeForce 1050 and it is using the 555.58.02 driver with no issues.
When I run anything other than 390.xx X11 won’t start and Wayland is only low res.