Cannot activate Nvidia optimus correctly. [SOLVED]

Breizh29 · 2021-12-11 10:51:49

I have an old laptop Acer Aspire A515 with arch installed (X11, sddm, kde plasma) and until now I have used the integrated intel graphic card.

[armand@arch-laptop ~]$ lspci | grep -E "VGA|3D" 
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 (rev 02) 
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce MX130] (rev a2) 
[armand@arch-laptop ~]$

The Nvidia card must be poweful and I decided to install and activate Optimus.

 [armand@arch-laptop ~]$ sudo pacman  -S nvidia

 [armand@arch-laptop ~]$ yay -S optimus-manager optimus-manager-qt

[armand@arch-laptop ~]$ systemctl status optimus-manager.service 
● optimus-manager.service - Optimus Manager Commands Daemon 
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/optimus-manager.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) 
    Active: active (running) since Sat 2021-12-11 12:22:40 +07; 1h 10min ago 
   Process: 385 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/python3 -u -m optimus_manager.hooks.pre_daemon_start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) 
   Process: 409 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/python3 -u -m optimus_manager.hooks.pre_xorg_start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) 
  Main PID: 423 (python3) 
     Tasks: 1 (limit: 4539) 
    Memory: 43.3M 
       CPU: 1.764s 
    CGroup: /system.slice/optimus-manager.service 
            └─423 /usr/bin/python3 -u -m optimus_manager.daemon 

déc. 11 12:22:39 arch-laptop python3[409]: [1853] INFO: Available modules: ['nouveau', 'nvidia', 'nvidia_drm', 'nvidia_modeset', 'nvidia_uvm'] 
déc. 11 12:22:39 arch-laptop python3[409]: [1853] INFO: Unloading modules ['nvidia_drm', 'nvidia_modeset', 'nvidia_uvm', 'nvidia'] (if loaded) 
déc. 11 12:22:39 arch-laptop python3[409]: [1857] INFO: switching=none, nothing to do 
déc. 11 12:22:40 arch-laptop python3[409]: [2389] INFO: Writing to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-optimus-manager.conf 
déc. 11 12:22:40 arch-laptop python3[409]: [2390] INFO: Writing state {'type': 'pending_post_xorg_start', 'switch_id': '20211211T122237', 'requested_mode': 'integrate> 
déc. 11 12:22:40 arch-laptop python3[409]: [2390] INFO: Xorg pre-start hook completed successfully. 
déc. 11 12:22:40 arch-laptop systemd[1]: Started Optimus Manager Commands Daemon. 
déc. 11 12:22:40 arch-laptop python3[423]: [2] INFO: # Commands daemon 
déc. 11 12:22:40 arch-laptop python3[423]: [2] INFO: Opening UNIX socket 
déc. 11 12:22:40 arch-laptop python3[423]: [2] INFO: Awaiting commands
[armand@arch-laptop ~]$

I try to switch to the Nviidia card and the trouble starts.

 optimus-manager --switch nvidia          
ERROR: cannot check the active card (should be "integrated"). Reason: Cannot run glxinfo: /bin/sh: ligne 1: glxinfo : commande introuvable 

Something went wrong during the last GPU setup... 
Log at /var/log/optimus-manager/switch/switch-20211211T122237.log 
Cannot execute command because of previous errors. 
[armand@arch-l[armand@arch-laptop ~]$aptop ~]$

glxinfo seems to belong to 'mesa-demos', I install the package

[armand@arch-laptop ~]$ pacman -Qi mesa-demos 
Nom                      : mesa-demos 
Version                  : 8.4.0-6 
Description              : Mesa demos 
Architecture             : x86_64 
URL                      : https://www.mesa3d.org/ 
Licences                 : custom 
Groupes                  : -- 
Fournit                  : -- 
Dépend de                : glew  freeglut 
Dépendances opt.         : -- 
Requis par               : optimus-manager 
Optionnel pour           : -- 
Est en conflit avec      : -- 
Remplace                 : -- 
Taille installée         : 7,78 MiB 
Paqueteur                : Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org> 
Compilé le               : mer. 24 nov. 2021 05:01:04 
Installé le              : sam. 11 déc. 2021 13:19:11 
Motif d’installation     : Installé comme dépendance d’un autre paquet 
Script d’installation    : Oui 
Validé par               : Signature 
[armand@arch-laptop ~]$

But nothing change.

[armand@arch-laptop ~]$ nano /var/log/optimus-manager/switch/switch-20211211T164050.log
141] INFO: # Xorg pre-start hook
[141] INFO: Previous state was: {'type': 'pending_pre_xorg_start', 'requested_mode': 'integrated', 'current_mode': None}
[142] INFO: Requested mode is: integrated
[1955] INFO: Available modules: ['nouveau', 'bbswitch', 'acpi_call', 'nvidia', 'nvidia_drm', 'nvidia_modeset', 'nvidia_uvm']
[1955] INFO: Unloading modules ['nvidia_drm', 'nvidia_modeset', 'nvidia_uvm', 'nvidia'] (if loaded)
[1960] INFO: switching=none, nothing to do
[2635] INFO: Writing to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-optimus-manager.conf
[2636] INFO: Writing state {'type': 'pending_post_xorg_start', 'switch_id': '20211211T164050', 'requested_mode': 'integrated'}
[2637] INFO: Xorg pre-start hook completed successfully.
[15] INFO: # Xorg post-start hook
[28] INFO: Running /etc/optimus-manager/xsetup-integrated.sh
[98] INFO: Writing state {'type': 'done', 'switch_id': '20211211T164050', 'current_mode': 'integrated'}
[100] INFO: Xorg post-start hook completed successfully.

[armand@arch-laptop ~]$ nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-optimus-manager.conf
Section "Device" 
       Identifier "integrated" 
       Driver "modesetting" 
       BusID "PCI:0:2:0" 
       Option "DRI" "3" 
EndSection

Am I missing something? Thanks in advance for your help.

Last edited by Breizh29 (2021-12-16 04:26:43)

V1del · 2021-12-11 11:46:32

glxinfo is newly present in mesa-utils rather than mesa-demos, the optimus-manager package's dependencies should be relevantly updated.

Last edited by V1del (2021-12-11 11:47:18)

Breizh29 · 2021-12-12 00:44:40

V1del wrote:

glxinfo is newly present in mesa-utils rather than mesa-demos, the optimus-manager package's dependencies should be relevantly updated.

OK. Thank you V1del

After installing the 'mesa-utils' package I succeed to swicth to the Nvidia card:

[armand@arch-laptop optimus-manager]$ optimus-manager --switch nvidia
WARNING : no power management option is currently enabled (this is the default since v1.2). Switching between GPUs will work but you will likely experience poor battery life.
Follow instructions at https://github.com/Askannz/optimus-manager/wiki/A-guide--to-power-management-options to enable power management.

You are about to switch GPUs. This will forcibly close all graphical sessions and all your applications WILL CLOSE.
(you can pass the --no-confirm option to disable this warning)
Continue ? (y/N)
>

[armand@arch-laptop ~]$ nano Xorg.0.log
déc. 12 06:21:08 arch-laptop kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  495.44  Fri Oct 22 06:13:12 UTC 2021 
déc. 12 06:21:08 arch-laptop systemd-udevd[4665]: nvidia: Process '/usr/bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/mknod -Z -m 666 /dev/nvidiactl c $(grep nvidia-frontend /proc/devices | > 
déc. 12 06:21:08 arch-laptop kernel: nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms  495.44  Fri Oct 22 06:05:22 UTC 2021 
déc. 12 06:21:08 arch-laptop kernel: [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver 
déc. 12 06:21:09 arch-laptop systemd-udevd[4666]: nvidia: Process '/usr/bin/bash -c 'for i in $(cat /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/*/information | grep Minor | cut -d \  -f> 
déc. 12 06:21:09 arch-laptop kernel: [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0

Another point, when I try to run "optimus-manager" on KDE destop, nothing is happening...

[armand@arch-laptop ~]$ journalctl -f
déc. 12 07:25:37 arch-laptop systemd[4750]: Started Optimus Manager.
déc. 12 07:25:37 arch-laptop kwin_x11[4808]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 4649, resource id: 41943422, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
déc. 12 07:25:37 arch-laptop kwin_x11[4808]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 4657, resource id: 41943423, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0

Last edited by Breizh29 (2021-12-12 00:57:46)

V1del · 2021-12-12 01:45:34

What do you think should happen?

Breizh29 · 2021-12-12 02:19:55

A system tray application ??

https://github.com/Askannz/optimus-mana … m-tray-app

V1del · 2021-12-12 02:55:29

If you installed optimus-manager-qt and try to run that, did you actually check your system tray settings? It's potentially hidden by default.

Last edited by V1del (2021-12-12 02:57:54)

Breizh29 · 2021-12-12 04:51:33

V1del wrote:

If you installed optimus-manager-qt and try to run that, did you actually check your system tray settings? It's potentially hidden by default.

No I didn't and how to do that?

V1del · 2021-12-12 10:47:09

It's possibly in the popup menu you can reach with the arrow or in the settings if you right click the tray (empty space or again the arrow), FWIW though I't shouldn't be inherently necessary, I assume you didn't enable plasma integration as mentioned here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opti … ned-683887 ?

Breizh29 · 2021-12-13 05:16:23

V1del wrote:

It's possibly in the popup menu you can reach with the arrow or in the settings if you right click the tray (empty space or again the arrow),

No I can't open the popup menu (nothing happens)

V1del wrote:

FWIW though I't shouldn't be inherently necessary, I assume you didn't enable plasma integration as mentioned here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opti … ned-683887 ?

I Recompiled with _plasma=true in PKGBUILD but it doesn't change anything.
It is not serious. I will continue to use tty to switch between integrated and Nvidia.

Last edited by Breizh29 (2021-12-13 08:30:37)

Breizh29 · 2021-12-16 04:26:02

I think I had something missing or corrupted. After reinstalling the system the popup menu also works.

I go to the solved status!

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#1 2021-12-11 10:51:49

Cannot activate Nvidia optimus correctly. [SOLVED]

#2 2021-12-11 11:46:32

Re: Cannot activate Nvidia optimus correctly. [SOLVED]

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Re: Cannot activate Nvidia optimus correctly. [SOLVED]

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Re: Cannot activate Nvidia optimus correctly. [SOLVED]

#5 2021-12-12 02:19:55

Re: Cannot activate Nvidia optimus correctly. [SOLVED]

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Re: Cannot activate Nvidia optimus correctly. [SOLVED]

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Re: Cannot activate Nvidia optimus correctly. [SOLVED]

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