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pivotraze

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From: Missoula, MT

Registered: 2011-08-21

Posts: 113

nVidia 750M doesn't let me start GDM (or lightDM for that matter)

Whenever I go to install the official nvidia package, nothing works. After finishing the boot sequence, it just sits at a black screen and never continues to GDM. I don't have any error logs (I'm not sure where to look for the logs related to this).

I have an nVidia GeForce 750M. When I uninstall the nvidia driver, everything works great again. Bumblebee doesn't seem to work, and I want the nvidia and not nouveau driver.

I think it has to do with failing to initialize the GLX module

Last edited by pivotraze (2014-04-08 16:19:01)

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clfarron4

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Re: nVidia 750M doesn't let me start GDM (or lightDM for that matter)

I assume this output from lspci is still valid (I nabbed it from your post history)?

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 06)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI (rev 05)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev d5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev d5)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev d5)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM86 Express LPC Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 750M] (rev a1)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
09:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 (rev c4)

If it is, have you:
1) left the Intel Graphics card enabled, setup the Intel drivers, then tried to use BumbleBee; OR
2) disabled the Intel Graphics and tried to go it alone with the nVidia card?

Last edited by clfarron4 (2014-04-08 16:51:51)

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pivotraze

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From: Missoula, MT

Registered: 2011-08-21

Posts: 113

Re: nVidia 750M doesn't let me start GDM (or lightDM for that matter)

Both.

At first, I tried uninstalling xf86-video-intel and intel-dri, and then installing nvidia, didn't work. I then tried the following:

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
install i915 /usr/bin/false
install intel_agp /usr/bin/false

Didn't work.

I then tried adding a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia.conf as:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Didn't work.

Finally, I uninstalled nvidia, and nvidia-utils, and then ran:

pacman -S nvidia xf86-video-intel intel-dri bumblebee bbswitch primus lib32-primus

I added myself to the bumblebee group, and nothing still.

And that lspci is still valid.

By the way, lspci | grep VGA returns roughly (PCI are exactly the same) the following:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0df4 (rev a1)

indicating that I have Optimus. However, I can't disable the intel card in the BIOS, so that is out of the question.

Last edited by pivotraze (2014-04-08 18:07:34)

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