Closed dextertd closed 2 years ago
Which gpu are you using?
3050 ti. But I have since returned this laptop having found no way to fix the issue. So I'll close this issue.
@DaVikingMan I'm experiencing exactly the same issue with the same video card, I'm also able to help debug the issue, please let me know how I can help and if I should create another issue or you want to re-open this.
Hi. Firstly I want to thank all contributors for their efforts in this repo. We are all suffering under the shared weight of Nvidia proprietary drivers...
I am having limited success in switching between modes with envycontrol. A bit of context: I'm using a Thinkpad and I tested first with its UEFI mode set to "hybrid mode" then with "discrete mode".
After installing envycontrol a query tells me I'm in hybrid mode. I am able to use the laptop and external monitors at this point, although it's laggy and unusable.
Switching: UEFI mode - hybrid
hybrid -> nvidia
Switching from hybrid to nvidia is successful and I can use external monitors perfectly.
nvidia -> hybrid
Switching back to hybrid is not successful. Whilst booting up it gets completely stuck on a black screen with text "... clean... files". To recover I can get to TTY2 with Ctrl+Alt+F2 and then switch back to nvidia and reboot.
nvidia -> integrated
envycontrol does not allow switching from nvidia to integrated (although I'm not sure why).
However, if I switch to hybrid, then via TTY2 switch to integrated, that boots up just fine. Switching from there to nvidia is also successful.
integrated -> hybrid
Switching from integrated to hybrid doesn't work but I can recover via TTY2.
Switching: UEFI mode - discrete
I then restored using timeshift to before envycontrol was installed, then reboot and changed the Thinkpad UEFI to discrete mode. envycontrol tells me I'm in hybrid mode even though I am definitely using the Nvidia GPU as external monitors work perfectly.
hybrid -> integrated
This fails. When booting back up there is a black screen and no way to use TTY2. Had to use livemedia to timeshift restore.
hybrid -> nvidia
hybrid -> hybrid
Works. envycontrol thinks it's switching to hybrid but it's actually using the Nvidia GPU.
Conclusion
So I cannot access hybrid mode after using envycontrol, which doesn't really matter as performs poorly. But I can switch between nvidia and integrated, even if it's not easy. Any combination of the switch options doesn't make any difference in any case.
It is interesting envycontrol says I start in hybrid but can never return, although it's only truly starting in hybrid when using UEFI hybrid, whereas it misreports as hybrid when using UEFI discrete.
Note that
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
doesn't exist and/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
only hasPosting this on my journey to tame Nvidia hardware... Things are not looking optimistic.