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*installer finished* installs nvidia prime and makes switching to intel only and back again easy as one command. intel mode fully disables the nvidia gpu to extend battery life.
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Unable to boot into system #1

Closed reikdas closed 5 years ago

reikdas commented 5 years ago

I removed optimus-manager before trying to install optimus-switch. (I disabled it from systemd and also cleared the config files)

I have the following output -

[reik@reik-msi ~]$ mhwd -li
> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-bumblebee            2018.08.09               false            PCI

Warning: No installed USB configs!

I removed video-linux. When trying to remove video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-bumblebee I was unable to because of conflicts with cuda, nvtop and python-pycuda. I removed cuda, nvtop, python-pycuda, python-tensorflow-opt-cuda, python-pytorch-cuda, opencv-cuda and cudnn and was able to remove video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-bumblebee. I installed video-nvidia.

I ran -

sudo pacman -S linux-headers acpi_call-dkms xf86-video-intel git (I chose linux419-headers)
sudo modprobe acpi_call
git clone https://github.com/dglt1/optimus-switch.git
sudo chmod +x ~/optimus-switch/install.sh
cd ~/optimus-switch
sudo ./install.sh

After reboot I get a flashing screen and I am unable to even boot into tty.

dglt1 commented 5 years ago

as discussed on the manjaro forum https://forum.manjaro.org/t/optimus-manager-alternative/76951/4 this issue is likely because of conflicting video related .conf files in one of the following directories that should of been removed before installing optimus-switch: /etc/X11/ /etc/X11/mhwd.d/ /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ /etc/modprobe.d/ /etc/modules-load.d/

you also did not remove bbswitch which can cause issues. the only drivers required for optimus-switch are video-nvidia installed via MHWD and xf86-video-intel via pacman (if you dont want xf86-video-intel, there are instructions on how to use modesetting driver instead by uncommenting 1 line in set-intel.sh)