Hello all,
This problem has been driving me up a wall for days now and I can’t seem to find any way to fix it so I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I recently got myself a Dell Precision 3240 Compact and put an nvidia RTX A2000 into it so that I could run 4 monitors at once and migrate to linux permanently. This is a clean install manjaro only. I could not get the live disk to boot with proprietary drivers so I installed manjaro with the open source video drivers. I tried installing the nonfree drivers using
sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300
The error that I get is
Skipping already installed config 'video-linux' for device: 0000:01:00.0 (0300:10de:2531) Display controller nVidia Corporation
I can plug multiple monitors into the card but when I try to line them up in the order they physically exist on my desk the mouse doesn’t match the image on screen and I cannot start up Steam. I have already found that this is because I need to install the proprietary nvidia drivers.
When I try using mhwd it doesn’t work. When I manually installed the linux510-nvidia driver based on the nvidia website, I had to switch the monitor input to the built in graphics and delete it to get the monitors to work at all.
I’m hoping that I have just been following the wrong tutorials and forum posts so far but I’m out of ideas.
mhwd -l
> 0000:01:00.0 (0300:10de:2531) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
video-vesa 2017.03.12 true PCI
> 0000:00:02.0 (0380:8086:9bc8) Display controller Intel Corporation:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
inxi -Gxx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CometLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: none empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3,
HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9bc8
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106 [RTX A2000] driver: nouveau v: kernel arch: Ampere
pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: DP-6,DP-7 off: DP-4 empty: DP-5
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2531
Device-3: Logitech CrystalCam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-6.2:6 chip-ID: 046d:0894
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: nouveau
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96
Monitor-1: DP-4 note: disabled model: Sceptre F24 res: N/A dpi: 92
diag: 604mm (23.8")
Monitor-2: DP-6 pos: right model: Sceptre F24 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 94
diag: 604mm (23.8")
Monitor-3: DP-7 pos: primary,left model: Sceptre F24 res: 1920x1080
dpi: 92 diag: 604mm (23.8")
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 23.0.4 renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7 256 bits)
direct-render: Yes
Hopefully this is all of the information needed to provide sufficient details.
Adam