NVIDIA Drivers - RTX 3060 -

[xcaslx]

Hey there, good morning/afternoon for you!

I just did that and still:( but you know something weirddd haha yesterday I was able to ‘switch’ from integrated to dedicated by just using the terminal comms for optimus but today it is not working, what I did yesterday was to run (in this order):

optimus-manager --help
optimus-manager --status
optimus-manager --print-mode
optimus-manager --print-startup
optimus-manager --switch nvidia --no-confirm
and then it logged out super quick and I was able to log back in with nvidia running… today it is not happening.

Optimus still does not appear on the tray, maybe it has something to do with optimus?

[brahma]

if you reinstalled the nvidia drivers and then you tried switching via optimus commands, it will not work, so remove optimus, install it again, reboot and switch via commands… i have no idea why its not working on your machine…

[xcaslx]

I tried that before reading your post:(
I reinstall optimus after reinstalling nvidia, tried with commands but nothing

[brahma]

so uninstall optimus, reboot and post output from:
ls /etc/modprobe.d
find /etc/X11/ -name "*.conf"
to check for leftover congigs, and we try another switching method… but since prime-run doesnt work, im thinking its something with nvidia and your ‘tinkering’ …

[xcaslx]

Hey there, thank you for keep trying, you deserve heaven at this point! <3!
I just did what you suggested, here is the output:

mhwd-gpu.conf

and

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf
/etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf

[brahma]

looks ok, so install envycontrol:
pamac build envycontrol
when done installing, switch to nvidia:
sudo envycontrol -s nvidia
it will prompt you for reboot, so do it and see…
if you end up with a black screen, enter in the black screen into TTY: ctrl+alt+f2 or f1-f6 keys, enter your username and password, and uninstall it:
sudo pacman -Rcns envycontrol
reboot:
systemctl reboot

[xcaslx]

Good news!! Using this method has worked switching to Nvidia graphics card!
Bad news… switching back to dedicated sudo envycontrol -s dedicated returns error and recommends switching back to hybrid first… I did sudo envycontrol -s hybrid and it is a black screen, tried what you recommended but it won’t exit from the black screen.

I tried installing back envycontrol but it returns an error for temporary name and ‘can’t find the file.’

[brahma]

did you rebooted after you had run?:
sudo envycontrol -s hybrid

[xcaslx]

yup, I did

[brahma]

so i dont know whats wrong…
boot into manjaro live usb, boot it with proprietary drivers, and run there:
prime-run firefox
then run:
nvidia-smi
to see if it runs on nvidia

[xcaslx]

I’ll try this!

And if it still does not work, I’ll re install manjaro again

[brahma]

well if it doesnt work in the live usb, theres no need to reinstall…