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ashyggdrasil

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Registered: 2017-05-03

Posts: 16

[SOLVED] Can't use Nvidia GTX 1060

Hi everyone. Before reading below, make sure that I've been searching the forums with my problem but none could help so far. I tried with the similar posts but none could help. I even had to reinstall arch for a couple times due to being stuck on boot and not able to use tty either.
I am currently using arch 64 bit on MSI Ge72 7rf Apache Pro. I can't use nvidia graphic card with xorg. It doesn't boot with

nvidia-xconfig

Or it doesn't login to Gnome classic or Gnome on Xorg.  so I edit like it's mentioned here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus#GDM  and created the optimus.desktop files as in example too. output of

grep -E "VGA|3D"

is

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591b (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060] (rev a1)

While my config is

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Module"
    Load "modesetting"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Driver "nvidia"
    BusID "1:0:0"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
EndSection

with

xrandr --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0
xrandr --auto

in .xinitrc, it stuck on boot and can't even use tty.  I am using 4.9 lts-kernel with nvidia-lts 378. Current graphics

Intel® Kabylake GT2

I am up for any step by step suggestions. Thank you.

Last edited by ashyggdrasil (2017-05-08 16:01:19)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,114

Re: [SOLVED] Can't use Nvidia GTX 1060

Have you set GDM#Use_Xorg_backend?
If you have please post the output from the journal for the gdm.service from a boot where GDM fails.

ashyggdrasil

Member

Registered: 2017-05-03

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] Can't use Nvidia GTX 1060

if you mean

#WaylandEnable=false 

yes I have uncommented this line

Last edited by ashyggdrasil (2017-05-07 14:49:14)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,567

Re: [SOLVED] Can't use Nvidia GTX 1060

remove the xorg.conf (and any other *.conf files in /etc/X11/ & /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ )  for now and try to start X.

post xorg log from that start.

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Try clean chroot manager by graysky

ashyggdrasil

Member

Registered: 2017-05-03

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] Can't use Nvidia GTX 1060

hi again. it's working now after fresh install. now i can't use nvidia optimus. when i install bumblebee, i login to unknown graphics. i didn't touch any bumblebee configs vice versa. i will post the updates!. thanks !