Optimus manager doesn't work after upgrade

[jgxvx]

@cscs

I think its a solution to a problem that doesnt exist

I have a Thinkpad X1 Extreme and the connectors for external screens are hardwired to the Nvidia GPU. The only way I can use an external screen with the laptop screen turned off is to use Nvidia’s proprietary drivers in combination with optimus-manager. Couldn’t get it to work with Nouveau drivers or without optimus-manager – it’s either not working at all or the frame rate drops to 1 frame in 10 seconds. Looked it up online and the suggested fix was to use optimus-manager.

Will investigate if there is a better solution by now. Would be more than happy to drop it, especially now that I have to get it from the AUR.

[chickengod]

This works with the 2022-01-02 update. Simply use optimus-manager-git 1.4-1 from the AUR.

I hope 1.4-3 gets updated with Python 3.10.

[ZaeNae]

Hi!

I have a laptop that is not operating after the update.
How can I work with that now? What is the solution?

[chickengod]

Define not operating?

[ZaeNae]

Here: another topic
I got the solution.

[linub]

it works now after the Python 3.10 update.
either follow the instructions on the update thread or uninstall OM and reinstall it.

[amonobeax]

Hello Friends, I’m experiencing issues with optimus-manager myself.

It seems the package is no longer being maintained in the official repositories pacman -S return invalid package name.

I’ll try the package from AUR.

What’s the reason pushing it into AUR instead of releasing on official repos?

[linub]

[Stable Update] 2021-12-16 - Kernels, KDE Gear 21.12.0, Gnome Extensions, LibreOffice

If optimus-manager is going to be that problematic, I’ll just drop it from the repos. I do not have hardware with hybrid graphics to test. The previous maintainer did, but he is no longer on the team.

[karpaz]

I must admit that I also had a problem after the manjaro update, but it was because I updated the kernel to version 5.15 and at that moment my “optimus-manager” stopped working, I solved it by changing the kernel to “LTS” 5.10

[amonobeax]

Thanks for the highlight.
For the record the AUR package is working, uninstalling the ex-official package and installing it (AUR) worked.
That said I’m kinda baffled that a project as big as Manjaro doesn’t have the resources to test this packages. I mean pretty much all laptops have hybrid GPU solutions, no? (considering NVIDIA still dominates on laptop market)