Okay, so I decided to post this just before I do anything that may break my system.
I have Manjaro KDE minimal Installed with bumblebee as Graphics Driver.
My Laptop is Dell Inspiron 1555 Series with Nvidia 920M
My goal is to have Intel used by default (Current) and Nvidia to take over PCSXR, PCSX2, and PPSSPP.
Now I am not very confident, how I would do this. Because I already have a Driver Installed which is Bumblebee, If I also Install Non-Free Driver for Nvidia will there be a conflict?
I am currently reading this and trying to understand first. but of course, I still want some input from you
Please see my System Info below:
sudo mhwd --listinstalled
> Installed PCI configs:
NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee 2020.11.30 false PCI
Warning: No installed USB configs!
inxi --full --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_ADDRESS = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_NAME = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_MONETARY = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_PAPER = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_TELEPHONE = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "cic_US.UTF-8",
LC_TIME = "cic_US.UTF-8",
LC_NUMERIC = "en_US.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
System: Kernel: 5.4.108-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.3 tk: Qt 5.15.2
info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5558 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 9 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0TYKPW v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: A17 date: 05/14/2019
Memory: RAM: total: 7.69 GiB used: 3.69 GiB (48.0%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU: Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-5200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Broadwell rev: 4 cache: L2: 3 MiB
bogomips: 17564
Speed: 1369 MHz min/max: 500/2700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1369 2: 1340 3: 1538 4: 2335
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush 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 ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx
monitor movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse
pse36 pti 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 xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1616
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GK208BM [GeForce 920M] vendor: Dell driver: N/A bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1299 class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-5:3 chip-ID: 064e:920b class-ID: 0e02
serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: intel s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.1 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:160c
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:9ca0 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 08:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0e0f
class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.4.108-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.24 running: yes
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f040 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:08b3
class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp6s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000
bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 2-6:4 chip-ID: 8087:07dc
class-ID: e001
Report: This feature requires one of these tools: hciconfig/bt-adapter
Logical: Message: No LVM data was found.
RAID: Message: No RAID data was found.
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.2 TiB used: 680.21 GiB (55.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100 size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm
serial: <filter> rev: 2D scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD032 size: 298.09 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm
serial: <filter> rev: 2M scheme: MBR
Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found.
Partition: ID-1: / size: 915.6 GiB used: 680.21 GiB (74.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 label: N/A
uuid: dee8bd17-af4e-4dff-9529-672b2a7c0dae
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 label: N/A uuid: 4466-B115
Swap: Alert: No Swap data was found.
Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/sdb1 size: 50 MiB fs: ntfs label: System Reserved uuid: BEE03B61E03B1ED9
ID-2: /dev/sdb2 size: 298.04 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A uuid: 4CFA40C6FA40ADD0
USB: Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:8001 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 11 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-2:2 info: Genius Wireless Mouse type: Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0250:3412 class-ID: 0301
Device-2: 2-5:3 info: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 064e:920b class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Device-3: 2-6:4 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:07dc class-ID: e001
Device-4: 2-8:5 info: Realtek RTS5129 Card Reader Controller type: <vendor specific>
driver: rtsx_usb,rtsx_usb_ms,rtsx_usb_sdmmc interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:0129
class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter>
Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2800
Info: Processes: 204 Uptime: 4h 43m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1238
Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.03
Why am I asking first?
months back I tried to sudo nvidia-xconfig
then a config file is generated in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
afterwards, I restarted the system, then BAM! No UI. It took me days before I could restore my system.