MHWD creates empty xorg configuration files

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#1 
$inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] driver: N/A 
           Device-3: Realtek USB Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.1.8

I have used the GUI variant of MHWD to install the 450xx drivers for my Nvidia GPU (“Auto Install Proprietary Driver”).
I started my laptop with every installed kernel, one after another (5.8, 5.7, 5.4, 4.19, 4.14), but it doesn’t work.

$nvidia-settings

ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded

In /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf, there is just a comment:

##
## Generated by mhwd - Manjaro Hardware Detection
##

The same in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mhwd.conf. Could that be the cause of the problem?

#2

can you please return

inxi -Fza
mhwd -li

you are messing up videos drivers if this is a laptop

#3 
inxi -Fza
System:    Kernel: 5.8.11-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64 
           [...]
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.20 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
           Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X555LD v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X555LD v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: X555LD.307 
           date: 07/02/2014 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 19.2 Wh condition: 19.5/37.3 Wh (52%) volts: 7.5/7.5 
           model: ASUSTeK X555-50 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Not charging cycles: 621 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-4210U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell family: 6 
           model-id: 45 (69) stepping: 1 microcode: 26 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 19160 
           Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 800/2700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798 3: 798 4: 798 
           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 Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0a16 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] 
           vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A alternate: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia bus ID: 04:00.0 
           chip ID: 10de:1140 
           Device-3: Realtek USB Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 2-5:2 chip ID: 0bda:57b5 
           serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa 
           display ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
           Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6") 
           diag: 394mm (15.5") 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.1.8 compat-v: 3.0 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:03.0 chip ID: 8086:0a0c 
           Device-2: Intel 8 Series HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:9c20 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.11-1-MANJARO 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK 
           driver: r8168 v: 8.048.03-NAPI modules: r8169 port: e000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On driver: ath9k 
           v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 168c:0032 
           IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-1: br-95d45472e8b9 state: down mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 408.93 GiB (87.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 3B6Q scheme: GPT 
           SMART Message: Unknown smartctl error. Unable to get data. 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 452.74 GiB size: 444.64 GiB (98.21%) used: 408.93 GiB (92.0%) fs: ext4 
           block size: 4096 B dev: /dev/dm-0 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 12.72 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 4100 
Info:      Processes: 243 Uptime: 35m Memory: 11.16 GiB used: 3.83 GiB (34.3%) Init: systemd v: 246 
           Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 10.0.1 Packages: 2390 pacman: 2345 lib: 457 flatpak: 42 snap: 3 
           Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.1.05 


$mhwd -li
> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-450xx-prime            2019.10.25               false            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
         network-r8168            2016.04.20                true            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nouveau-prime            2017.05.29                true            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!

And yes, it is a laptop. And no, I’m not messing up video drivers (intentionally) - I’m just using MHWD tool and would expect it doing it right. But maybe that’s the same :wink: - I don’t know.

#4

manjaro installation in case of hybrid cards choose open-soure intel ( or amd )
if you need to check hybrid nvidia cards, then this is a prime command

prime-run nvidia-settings
prime-run vulkaninfo
prime-run glxinfo ( prime offload)
#5 
$prime-run glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  152 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  24 (X_GLXCreateNewContext)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  39
  Current serial number in output stream:  40

primerun: Command not found.

#6

Why are both installed? If you want the proprietary drivers, uninstall video-hybrid-intel-nouveau-prime and reinstall the other: sudo mhwd -f -i pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-450xx-prime

#7

Here we go again…

  1. Purge PRIME. (Will not work!)
  2. Install bumblebee:
sudo  mhwd -r pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-450xx-prime
sudo  mhwd -r pci video-hybrid-intel-nouveau-prime
sudo  mhwd -i pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee
sudo gpasswd -a $USER bumblebee
sudo systemctl enable bumblebeed

Reboot.
Check if all is fine:

optirun -b none nvidia-settings -c :8
optirun nvidia-smi
optirun glxinfo|grep Open
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#8

Indeed, I didn’t even check the gpu model, PRIME won’t work, so you’re left with bumblebee.

#9

MHWD with lastest live isos is stupid and cannot handle older nvidia’s chips. They cannot support PRIME, but when MHWD find INTEL + NVIDIA, then installing in default PRIME based profile, but should install legacy bumblebee instead FOR OLDER devices.

#10 
$optirun glxinfo
[  573.914225] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) No devices detected.

[  573.914284] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

$inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] driver: nvidia 
           v: 390.132 
           Device-3: Realtek USB Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: nvidia resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.1.8
#11

Tried this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee#[ERROR]Cannot_access_secondary_GPU:_No_devices_detected

I have added

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nvidiagpu1"
    Driver "nvidia"
    BusID "PCI:4:0:0"
EndSection

to the bottom of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mhwd.conf file after checking the bus with

$lspci | grep GeForce
04:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] (rev a1)

but after a restart it doesn’t change anything.

#12

Solved the issue by adding
BusID "PCI:4:0:0"
to the
Section "Device"
in
/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia
.