Hi there.
I have a laptop with dual graphics: intergrated AMD + Nvidia. After Unreal engine started crashing with a vukan_amd.so in the callstack, I started researching which gpu it’s actually using. None of the tools I tried prove that Nvidia is utilized. I tried nvtop (shows only AMD), nvidia-smi (returns an error of missing driver), xrandr --listproviders (only AMD).
I went on to reinstall the drivers. Cleaned the old one and let mhwd do it automatically. I got the driver, pacman nvidia packages. But nvidia-smi still fails. nvidia-settings does not have any configuration options that should be there.
Help me configure this properly please! I tried following this and this manuals.
Here’s the output of some commands:
$ nvidia-smi 9 ✘
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
$ nvidia-settings ✔
ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded
(nvidia-settings:7260): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:17:12.779: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
** (nvidia-settings:7260): CRITICAL **: 08:17:12.780: ctk_powermode_new: assertion '(ctrl_target != NULL) && (ctrl_target->h != NULL)' failed
ERROR: nvidia-settings could not find the registry key file or the X server is not accessible. This file should have been installed along with this driver at
/usr/share/nvidia/nvidia-application-profiles-key-documentation. The application profiles will continue to work, but values cannot be prepopulated or validated, and will not be
listed in the help text. Please see the README for possible values and descriptions.
$ pacman -Q | grep nvid ✔
lib32-nvidia-utils 550.67-1
linux66-nvidia 550.67-5
mhwd-nvidia 550.67-1
mhwd-nvidia-390xx 390.157-9
mhwd-nvidia-470xx 470.239.06-1
nvidia-prime 1.0-4
nvidia-settings 550.67-1
nvidia-utils 550.67-1
$ mhwd -li ✔
> Installed PCI configs:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
video-hybrid-amd-nvidia-prime 2023.03.23 false PCI
$ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width ✔
System:
Kernel: 6.6.25-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: hpet avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-6.6-x86_64
root=UUID=8e50babd-d978-452a-84f5-c19ce197176b rw rootflags=subvol=@
random.trust_cpu=on quiet splash apparmor=1 security=apparmor
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: GNOME v: 45.4 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: gnome-shell
tools: gsd-screensaver-proxy dm: GDM v: 45.0.1 Distro: Manjaro
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82L5 v: IdeaPad 5 Pro 16ACH6
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: IdeaPad 5 Pro 16ACH6
serial: <superuser required>
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Zen 3 gen: 4 level: v3 note: check built: 2021-22
process: TSMC n7 (7nm) family: 0x19 (25) model-id: 0x50 (80) stepping: 0
microcode: 0xA50000C
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile] vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A
alternate: nouveau non-free: 545.xx+ status: current (as of 2024-02;
EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
built: 2020-2023 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 4
speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:25a2 class-ID: 0302
Device-2: AMD Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5 code: Vega
process: GF 14nm built: 2017-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1
bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1638 class-ID: 0300 temp: 48.0 C
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.12 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.5
compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi
gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
device: 1 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland: drv: radeonsi x11:
drv: radeonsi inactive: gbm
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.0.2-manjaro1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi renoir
LLVM 16.0.6 DRM 3.54 6.6.25-1-MANJARO) device-ID: 1002:1638
memory: 3.91 GiB unified: no display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 layers: 7 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: AMD
Radeon Graphics (RADV RENOIR) driver: mesa radv v: 24.0.2-manjaro1.1
device-ID: 1002:1638 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland