Nvidia/Intel Graphics, boots to black screen with text

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Hello,
I know this has been a topic that has been asked a lot, and I’ve read my fair share of topic here on the forum on the subject.
My problem right now:
I tried a few things that were suggested, and now I’m booting to a black screen with only /dev/sda2: clean and the rest of that line.
(I’ve managed to recover from this state before, but I’ve made another change, and now I’m stuck here)

My original problem, and how I got to this stage:
I tried to get the Nvidia driver to always use the 960 and not the Intel graphics.

What I tried to get back to desktop:

  1. removed all drivers
  2. reinstalled both nonfree and when that did not work also the free ones.
  3. read all the logs that are required when posting a new topic to search for the cause (could not capture them easily from this state)
  4. deleted/edited some conf files that were recommended on similar topics. (can look at history to find out the exact ones)

I have 2 questions

  1. what’s the best way to get back to the desktop?
  2. once I’m back there, what the best way to make sure a certain program always uses the Nvidia GPU?

Thanks

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the best way now is to boot into manjaro usb, connect to internet, and chroot:
sudo manjaro-chroot -a
then provide output from:
inxi -G
mhwd -l && mhwd -li
pacman -Qs nvidia
pacman -Qs optimus
find /etc/X11/ -name "*.conf"

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Thanks, will do that the first chance I get.
The weird thing is, I somehow managed to get sound working (unintentionally) so when I reboot from the terminal it plays the sound for power off.

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12Graphics:
  12Device-1 Intel HD Graphics 530 12driver i915 12v kernel
  12Device-2 NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] 12driver nouveau 12v kernel
  12Display 12server X.org 12v 1.21.1.4 12driver 12X 12loaded nvidia 12gpu i915 12resolution 1920x1080
  12Message GL data unavailable for root.


0000:02:00.0 (0302:10de:139b) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2021.12.18               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime            2021.12.18               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee            2021.12.18               false            PCI
          video-nvidia            2021.12.18               false            PCI
    video-nvidia-470xx            2021.12.18               false            PCI
    video-nvidia-390xx            2021.12.18               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI


> 0000:04:00.0 (0200:10ec:8168) Network controller Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         network-r8168            2016.04.20                true            PCI


> 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:191b) Display controller Intel Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2021.12.18               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime            2021.12.18               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee            2021.12.18               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
            video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI


> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         network-r8168            2016.04.20                true            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2021.12.18               false            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!




pacman -Qs nvidia
local/egl-wayland 2:1.1.10-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 515.57-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libvdpau 1.5-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 515.57-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/linux510-nvidia 515.57-6 (linux510-extramodules)
    NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/linux515-nvidia 515.57-6 (linux515-extramodules)
    NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/linux517-nvidia 515.57-1 (linux517-extramodules)
    NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/mhwd-nvidia 515.57-1
    MHWD module-ids for nvidia 515.57
local/mhwd-nvidia-390xx 390.151-2
    MHWD module-ids for nvidia 390.151
local/mhwd-nvidia-470xx 470.129.06-1
    MHWD module-ids for nvidia 470.129.06
local/nvidia-prime 1.0-4
    NVIDIA Prime Render Offload configuration and utilities
local/nvidia-utils 515.57-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities



find /etc/X11/ -name "*.conf"
/etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mhwd.conf
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ok so first try removing this:
sudo rm /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf
systemctl reboot
you can do this from tty - ctrl+alt+f2 no need to enter chroot again

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Thanks, that got me back to the desktop, now what’s the safest way to force an application to run on the Nvidia GPU and not the Intel one?

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with prime-run command for example:
prime-run minecraft
you can add this prime-run command into the application you want to use the nvidia so that you dont have to run it every time …
give me an example of an application you want to run with nvidia

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Thanks! That did the trick, I edited the program command to include prime-run.
Will update this topic in the next couple of days if this did not stick for some reason.

Thanks again!

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