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retogenes

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Registered: 2016-01-21

Posts: 33

thinkpad x1 extreme, optimus does not switch to NVIDIA [SOLVED]

Hi,

I was using bumblebee and now I switched to optimus to have control over using intel or Nvidia GPU. I followed the advice in the wiki, an installed from the AUR optimus-manager, optimus-manager-qt and gdm-prime

When switching to Nvidia, I see no error, but the Nvidia driver and card are not used.

glxinfo | grep OpenGL

OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (Coffeelake 3x8 GT2)
...

systemctl status optimus-manager

● optimus-manager.service - Optimus Manager Commands Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/optimus-manager.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2019-11-01 15:53:53 WET; 49min ago
 Main PID: 607 (python3)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 37855)
   Memory: 34.6M
   CGroup: /system.slice/optimus-manager.service
           └─607 /usr/bin/python3 -u /usr/bin/optimus-manager-daemon

Nov 01 16:21:20 cthulhu python3[607]:     "type": "switch"
Nov 01 16:21:20 cthulhu python3[607]: }
Nov 01 16:21:20 cthulhu python3[607]: Writing requested GPU mode intel
Nov 01 16:21:48 cthulhu python3[607]: Received command : {
Nov 01 16:21:48 cthulhu python3[607]:     "args": {
Nov 01 16:21:48 cthulhu python3[607]:         "mode": "nvidia"
Nov 01 16:21:48 cthulhu python3[607]:     },
Nov 01 16:21:48 cthulhu python3[607]:     "type": "switch"
Nov 01 16:21:48 cthulhu python3[607]: }
Nov 01 16:21:48 cthulhu python3[607]: Writing requested GPU mode nvidia

lspci | grep VGA

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 630 (Mobile)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)

nvidia-smi

Fri Nov  1 16:47:27 2019       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 435.21       Driver Version: 435.21       CUDA Version: 10.1     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 105...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   51C    P0    N/A /  N/A |      0MiB /  4040MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Last edited by retogenes (2019-11-02 16:03:14)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,738

Re: thinkpad x1 extreme, optimus does not switch to NVIDIA [SOLVED]

Shot in the dark, but ensure GDM is configured to launch a xorg: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … rg_backend

retogenes

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Registered: 2016-01-21

Posts: 33

Re: thinkpad x1 extreme, optimus does not switch to NVIDIA [SOLVED]

Great. I thought I had disabled Wayland, but I have just checked my /etc/gdm/custom.conf and it was not disabled... Thank you, V1del

edit: I still have minor problems: when changing mode, more often than GDM does not appear, and I instead see a black window with a blinking cursor. I have to change to a TTY (Ctrl+Alt+2) and then back (Ctr+Alt+1) for GDM to appear

Last edited by retogenes (2019-11-02 19:29:32)