Trouble with NVIDIA driver

Hi everyone. Just a quick warning: I’m a bit of a novice when it comes to Manjaro, and troubleshooting software generally.

I’m having a lot of trouble with my NVIDIA quadro p500 mobile. Somehow, Manjaro knows I have this graphics card, but there is no driver. In particular the command inxi -G returns

Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP108GLM [Quadro P500 Mobile] driver: N/A
Device-3: Chicony Integrated Camera (1280x720@30) type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.8 driver: nvidia resolution:
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.5

If I type mhwd, I get

> 0000:02:00.0 (0302:10de:1d33) Display controller nVidia Corporation:

              NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE

video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-440xx-prime 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-435xx-prime 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-430xx-bumblebee 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-418xx-bumblebee 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-nvidia-440xx 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-nvidia-435xx 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-nvidia-430xx 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-nvidia-418xx 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-nvidia-390xx 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI

> 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:5917) Display controller Intel Corporation:

              NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE

video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-440xx-prime 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-435xx-prime 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-430xx-bumblebee 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-418xx-bumblebee 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
video-vesa 2017.03.12 true PCI

That seems weird to me, because it looks like I somehow have nvidia drivers installed for my Intel card?

One more thing that may or may not be relevant: When I type dmesg | grep drm, I get the result

[ 2.685063] systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Module drm…
[ 2.692194] systemd[1]: modprobe@drm.service: Succeeded.
[ 2.692616] systemd[1]: Finished Load Kernel Module drm.
[ 3.007386] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000200] Loading driver
[ 3.007387] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:02:00.0 on minor 0
[ 4.253869] fb: switching to inteldrmfb from EFI VGA
[ 4.256247] [drm] Replacing VGA console driver
[ 4.261214] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[ 4.261214] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[ 4.263569] [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin (v1.4)
[ 4.880256] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20180719 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 1
[ 5.014019] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 5.014025] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device

Does anyone have any ideas or hints? Ultimately I would like to run some CUDA code.

Thanks for your help!

I cant tell which profile you have selected exactly. But from the available ones the preferred is
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-440xx-prime

With that installed do

prime-run inxi -G

See how that works? … ex:

glxinfo | grep 'renderer string'
prime-run glxinfo | grep 'renderer string'

Thats the long and short of it … for more see here:
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Configure_Graphics_Cards

PS. For future things, such as formatting, please see this:
How to provide good information

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Thank you for your help cscs. If I type now, e.g.,

prime-run inxi -G

it returns

Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP108GLM [Quadro P500 Mobile] driver: nvidia v: 440.100
Device-3: Chicony Integrated Camera (1280x720@30) type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: nouveau resolution:
OpenGL: renderer: Quadro P500/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 440.100

which I guess makes a lot more sense. Thanks again!

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