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redman6150

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Registered: 2019-12-08

Posts: 3

Laptop Hybrid Graphics

Hello!
It is about 6 months that i use ArchLinux on my desktop PC and everything work well. Thus, I installed it on my laptop and have some issues that i can't resolve alone with all the wiki at disposal.
I need some help, it is around 3 days that i can't fix it.

So, my laptop is a Asus R700V series (neofetch tells me that is a K75VJ) with a graphic cards Intel i915 and Nvidia GeForce GT635M. After the installation of the system, it worked right but the Nvidia driver was not installed.
Thus following the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hybrid_graphics , I installed the 390.219 driver from the AUR repository. After the installation, I launched nvidia-xconfig to generate the xorg.conf file.
After the reboot, the graphical interface doesnt load A blackscreen with a white prompt blinking appear

How can I run back to the graphical interface?

Thanks for the answers

So I installed Lightdm and Xfce4.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,743

Re: Laptop Hybrid Graphics

You don't need to install anything from the AUR, remove the xorg.conf (where in the hybrid graphics article did you see mention of running nvidia-xconfig that?) and instead follow one of the approaches in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus

redman6150

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Registered: 2019-12-08

Posts: 3

Re: Laptop Hybrid Graphics

Thanks for the answer.

I already tried some of them solutions.
I'm actually trying to run only the nvidia.

Here's my lightdm.log

[+0.00s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.30.0, UID=0 PID=651
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /usr/local/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /etc/xdg/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[+0.00s] DEBUG:   [SeatDefaults] is now called [Seat:*], please update this configuration
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module local
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xremote
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Using D-Bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.00s] DEBUG: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation local (GLocalVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Monitoring logind for seats
[+0.01s] DEBUG: New seat added from logind: seat0
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Loading properties from config section Seat:*
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Starting
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Creating greeter session
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Creating display server of type x
[+0.01s] DEBUG: posix_spawn avoided (fd close requested) 
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Could not run plymouth --ping: Failed to execute child process “plymouth” (No such file or directory)
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Using VT 7
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Starting local X display on VT 7
[+0.01s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log
[+0.01s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Writing X server authority to /run/lightdm/root/:0
[+0.01s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Launching X Server
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Launching process 657: /usr/bin/X :0 -seat seat0 -auth /run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
[+0.01s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
[+0.01s] WARNING: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Loading user config from /etc/lightdm/users.conf
[+0.01s] DEBUG: User redman6150 added
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Process 657 exited with return value 1
[+0.10s] DEBUG: XServer 0: X server stopped
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Releasing VT 7
[+0.10s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Removing X server authority /run/lightdm/root/:0
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Display server stopped
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping session
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Session stopped
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping display server, no sessions require it
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping; greeter display server failed to start
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopped
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Required seat has stopped
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Stopping display manager
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Display manager stopped
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Stopping daemon
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Exiting with return value 1

redman6150

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Registered: 2019-12-08

Posts: 3

Re: Laptop Hybrid Graphics

Hi!

I ran it well

Just deleting all nvidia packages and removed xorg.conf.
I installed Optimus-manager and the computer is able to run on the Intel or/with the Nvidia.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,645

Re: Laptop Hybrid Graphics

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