Which Nvidia Driver Should I Use?

[mizumi]

Running sudo prime-run nvidia-settings shows the same error on the console, can I ignore it?

[cscs]

The same error? or just some random nvidia errors?

The main point I think is if it launches.
Honestly … the more holistic approach is to not use sudo, save somewhere local, then use sudo to apply it.
But in any case… do this first so we can be sure:

@cscs

glxinfo | grep renderer
prime-run glxinfo | grep renderer

[mizumi]

The application launches, but I see the same error:

(nvidia-settings:3932): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 01:59:09.797: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

ERROR: nvidia-settings could not find the registry key file. This file should
...  Please see the README for possible values and descriptions.

Here’s the log,

~ >>> glxinfo | grep renderer                                             [130]
    GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer, 
    GLX_MESA_query_renderer, GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_OML_swap_method, 
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2)

~ >>> prime-run glxinfo | grep renderer                                   [130]
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2

[cscs]

Seems your PRIME is working fine.

All that nvidia-settings does is create an xorg conf file.
You could save it anywhere … but to save it to the system you need root privileges.

What I would do … is do that nvidia-settings stuff, save it to Documents (or wherever) and use it as a template … then combine those contents into my own file, or simply copy it to somewhere like /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-nvidia.conf

If you dont want to do that … you need to use sudo with that program … and tell it to save to the proper place.
(this goes against all my senses … but its how it ‘works’ I guess)

For a more general overview of what/how/why I suggest looking at the wiki(s)

https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Configure_Graphics_Cards
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PRIME
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA

[mizumi]

Cool! Thanks a lot for bearing with my noob questions, I will read them thoroughly and get back to you as soon as I can, hopefully by tomorrow.

I’m just glad that I didn’t encounter a blank screen, even appended acpi_osi=! acpi_osi='Windows 2009'" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT.

Thanks for your patience again

[cscs]

No worries friend (though happy respectful cordial interaction is always a plus)

I think we have rather exhausted the thread topic.

So if you need help configuring things … it would be helpful to you, as well as other users, to create a new topic for any queries about that.