I have a laptop with two GPUs, from Intel and Nvidia, have recently instlalled Manjaro (gnome) and hybrid nvidia video drivers. I want to use primarily my external monitor via HDMI and switch to the internal laptop’s one when external is disconnected. Also I want to use some kind of ‘hybrid mode’: nvidia card only for games and such.
Standard gnome system menu Displays correctly discovers both monitors and offers 3 modes (join, mirror, single), which all work. The problem is, only the modes which use internal laptop monitor work normally: join, mirror, single laptop monitor. They work and the external monitor works normally in join and mirror modes. But when I use the single external mode, it works extremely slow, all graphic changes take several seconds: selecting interface elements, switching active windows, switching focus and so on. It’s completely unusable. Only the cursor moves normally.
Another thing: when I use the mirror mode everything works well, including on the external monitor, but if I close laptop lid internal monitor switches off and I have the same problem with the external monitor.
Also, when I used command ‘nvidia-xconfig’, it created an xorg config which looks very generic:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 450.66
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
After restarting my internal monitor didn’t work at all in ‘graphical mode’: text terminals only but no gnome. But when I plugged in external monitor, it worked well, no graphics slowing. As this is not what I want, I deleted that ‘xorg.conf’ and all went back after restarting.
Could you help me to make it work?
System information:
System: Kernel: 5.8.6-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64
root=UUID=c3e3a799-be9f-4af7-a545-b6a9233bf340 rw quiet apparmor=1 security=apparmor
resume=UUID=9cf56e05-a59a-4620-8329-e41661d8b0dd udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: GNOME 3.36.6 tk: GTK 3.24.23 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 3.36.3
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 065C71 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.11.0 date: 12/04/2019
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 65.2 Wh condition: 65.2/74.0 Wh (88%) volts: 12.6/11.4
model: SMP DELL 71JF452 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-7700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake
family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: 9 microcode: D6 L2 cache: 6144 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 44817
Speed: 1000 MHz min/max: 800/3800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1025 2: 1022 3: 1004 4: 1009
5: 1009 6: 1002 7: 1055 8: 1003
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 HD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
chip ID: 8086:591b
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] vendor: Dell driver: nvidia
v: 450.66 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c8c
Device-3: Sunplus Innovation Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-12:7
chip ID: 1bcf:2c01
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 compositor: gnome-shell driver: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: intel,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa display ID: :1 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6")
diag: 394mm (15.5")
Monitor-2: HDMI-1-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 102 size: 476x268mm (18.7x10.6")
diag: 546mm (21.5")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.7
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a171
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.6-1-MANJARO
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Dell
driver: r8168 v: 8.048.03-NAPI modules: r8169 port: d000 bus ID: 02:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0
chip ID: 8086:3165
IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 582.64 GiB (31.3%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T2B0C-00PXH0 size: 931.51 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter>
rev: 211070WD scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ02ABD100H size: 931.51 GiB block size:
physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter>
rev: 1D scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 285.66 GiB size: 280.18 GiB (98.08%) used: 14.37 GiB (5.1%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
ID-2: /home raw size: 97.66 GiB size: 95.62 GiB (97.92%) used: 16.49 GiB (17.2%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda5
Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 19.53 GiB used: 3.21 GiB (16.4%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: 44.0 C sodimm: 48.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info: Processes: 330 Uptime: 4d 13h 39m Memory: 15.51 GiB used: 7.24 GiB (46.7%) Init: systemd
v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1417 lib: 456 flatpak: 0 snap: 0
Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.1.05
> Installed PCI configs:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
network-r8168 2016.04.20 true PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-450xx-prime 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
Warning: No installed USB configs!
cat /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf [130]
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