Hi there, I have no idea what I did to my laptop yesterday since I was tired out of my mind, but now my NVIDIA X Server Settings are only showing two options: “Application Profiles” and “nvidia-settings Configuration”. Can anybody help?
buy AMD 
just joking but please give us a few overview of the system with inxi as it always should be and described below, so we can see what graphic device and driver is active.
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Haha, I definitely would have if I managed to find an AMD laptop around here, here’s the output from the inxi though:
System:
Kernel: 5.15.32-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
root=UUID=ad27ab80-8226-478e-bca2-f0bc3e4794f2 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=a312e2b5-5294-46c7-9099-724f0fda4d3f
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.4 tk: Qt v: 5.15.3 info: latte-dock
wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Nitro AN515-55 v: V2.03
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: CML model: Stonic_CMS v: V2.03 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: Insyde v: 2.03 date: 03/23/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 56.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 56.0/57.5 Wh (97.5%)
volts: 17.5 min: 15.4 model: LGC AP18E8M type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: N/A
Memory:
RAM: total: 7.6 GiB used: 3.27 GiB (43.0%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-10300H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet Lake
family: 6 model-id: 0xA5 (165) stepping: 2 microcode: 0xEC
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1746 high: 3103 min/max: 800/4500 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 900 2: 900 3: 1383
4: 1390 5: 983 6: 2231 7: 3082 8: 3103 bogomips: 40009
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt
cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts
epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr
ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ida
intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor
movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx ospke pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq
pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pku pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdrand rdseed
rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx
vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
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 status: Vulnerable: eIBRS with unprivileged eBPF
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CometLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:9bc4 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA TU117M vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: N/A
alternate: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f99 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Quanta HD User Facing type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:3
chip-ID: 0408:a061 class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Najing CEC Panda 0x004d built: 2019 res: 1920x1080
hz: 144 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64")
diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.8
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:06c8 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1
chip-ID: 10de:10fa class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.32-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.49 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:06f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Realtek vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel
pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 07:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:2600 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-14:4 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 71.63 GiB (30.0%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: PC SN530 SDBPNPZ-256G-1014 size: 238.47 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 21103900 temp: 45.9 C scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 229.37 GiB size: 224.71 GiB (97.97%)
used: 71.63 GiB (31.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
label: N/A uuid: ad27ab80-8226-478e-bca2-f0bc3e4794f2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
label: NO_LABEL uuid: 3245-4B8E
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 label: swap
uuid: a312e2b5-5294-46c7-9099-724f0fda4d3f
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-2:2 info: Razer USA RZ01-0325 Gaming Mouse [Viper Mini]
type: Mouse,Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 1532:008a class-ID: 0300
Device-2: 1-5:3 info: Quanta HD User Facing type: Video driver: uvcvideo
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0408:a061
class-ID: 0e02
Device-3: 1-14:4 info: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0026
class-ID: e001
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 70.0 C pch: 56.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 266 Uptime: 37m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 1337 pacman: 1316 lib: 359
flatpak: 11 snap: 10 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.16
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.15
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may you check the infocenter if the mesa-driver is active ?
applicationlauncher->system->infocenter
otherwise open a terminal and run glxheads. what is active ? intel mesa ?
Running glxheads outputs this:
glxheads: exercise multiple GLX connections (any key = exit)
Usage:
glxheads xdisplayname ...
Example:
glxheads :0 mars:0 venus:1
Name: :0
Display: 0x556654909120
Window: 0x5800002
Context: 0x55665492c0c0
GL_VERSION: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 21.3.8
GL_VENDOR: Intel
GL_RENDERER: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics (CML GT2)
and the infocenter also states the graphics processor as Intel mesa
let me guess, there was an update ? actually prime is active. you can live with it and add a “prime-run” to the application you want to render with nvidia or doing the hard way to run explicit on nvidia. actually i accepted that prime-run is the favorit of manjaro, but i’m not sure if i’ll change it. if you want to run an application like let’s say firefox, you’ll edit the programm-capability and edit to “prime-run firefox”. it has certain advantages and disadvantages and will split the community to 2 parts.
here’s some information of prime:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME
I am aware of prime-run, but I’m not sure how this correlates to my original question? (I don’t mean this in a rude way, just curious)
well same here, if mesa is active the nvidia-settings only have a minimum-access for editing. there must be some changes with the last updates.
Ahh, I see your point now. I may just try to reinstall Manjaro as this is my first install on this laptop, and I’ve messed around with the system a lot to see what works.
just check the forum and the wikis before installing a new system how to set up nvidia as primary gpu. this will help later not to get an total headache. nvidia is a mess.
The NVIDIA driver is not properly installed. Looks like you’ll need video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime. See Configure Graphics Cards - Manjaro
What’s the output of:
mhwd -li