OK, I have not gotten any results yet from my earlier post regarding this matter, and this thread has been inactive for almost a month.
In the mean time I have moved from GNOME to KDE. I am however still having the same problem. Steam just doesn’t notice my GPU.
I installed sudo mhwd -i pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-450xx-prime, sudo mhwd -i pci video-modesetting in terminal and gdm-prime in pamac.
I start Steam from Lutris with these settings:
Steam - System Information (copied the graphic part):
Video Card:
Driver: Intel Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2)
Driver Version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 20.1.7
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1c8d
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 2
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 13.54" x 7.60" (15.51" diag)
34.4cm x 19.3cm (39.4cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected
Now my GPU works fine, I have used CatBoost with Anaconda, and that fires up the GPU just fine (no heavy usage though).
nvidia-smi and nvidia-settings works just fine, only steam that is buggy.
inxi F-azy
[olividir@HP ~]$ inxi -Fzay
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=f90c1ec5-7cd7-47fb-bf4b-d2eb2320d764 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 tk: Qt 5.15.0 wm: kwin_x11 dm: GDM 3.36.3, SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-cx0xxx
v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: HP model: 8478 v: 70.57 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.22
date: 04/21/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 36.0 Wh condition: 38.0/52.8 Wh (72%) volts: 12.8/11.6
model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: Unknown
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8300H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) microcode: D6
L2 cache: 8192 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 36812
Speed: 3404 MHz min/max: 800/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3404 2: 2578
3: 3740 4: 1737 5: 1781 6: 1669 7: 2019 8: 2085
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 UHD Graphics 630 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3e9b
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: nvidia v: 450.66 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 01:00.0
chip ID: 10de:1c8d
Device-3: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Wide Vision HD
Integrated Webcam
type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-5:5 chip ID: 05c8:03bc
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 compositor: kwin_x11
driver: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: intel,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa
display ID: :0 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")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.7
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci
bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a348
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.6-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8822be v: N/A modules: rtw88_8822be
port: 4000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:b822
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 05:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.60 TiB used: 282.21 GiB (17.3%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLW256HEHP-000H1
size: 238.47 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: CXB73H1Q scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: External USB 3.0
size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter>
rev: 5438 scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD My Passport 0740
size: 465.73 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter>
rev: 1007 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 238.17 GiB size: 233.43 GiB (98.01%)
used: 64.92 GiB (27.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap:
Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: 29.8 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 286 Uptime: 2h 20m Memory: 15.53 GiB used: 4.05 GiB (26.1%)
Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 alt: 9 clang: 10.0.1
Packages: 1366 pacman: 1343 lib: 371 flatpak: 13 snap: 10 Shell: Bash
v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole inxi: 3.1.05
I have not been able to use GPU in games after I started using nvidia450xx driver. Was getting fine performance with prime-run %command% with nvidia440xx driver.
[olividir@HP ~]$ inxi -G
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] driver: nvidia v: 450.66
Device-3: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Wide Vision HD Integrated
Webcam
type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: intel,nouveau resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.7
Maybe it is possible to make nvidia as device-1??? (prime-select does not work) Laptop is always plugged in, so I am not worried about battery life.