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Zhme

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Registered: 2017-06-11

Posts: 80

[Solved] Nvidia driver breaks X hybrid GPU

I have been avoiding using the nvidia GPU in my laptop because I have never had a good time trying to get it to work with xorg.

Recently, I wanted to use hashcat at a rate that wasn't painful and installed the nvidia drivers while X was running and was able to use hashcat with nvidia GPU successfully. Today, I cannot start X.

I have attempted to follow the most basic troubleshooting tips to no avail and I fear that further steps are going to dig me deeper into a problem.

Because I am using my phone for this forum post I chained all of my relevant output into one post. I hope that is okay.

I provided the output for
lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)",
cat ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log,
locate xorg.conf,
pacman -Ss xf86*

http://dpaste.com/0EYBD0B

Let me know if there are any other outputs relevant to this situation!

Thank you in advance. I have a feeling that this is a simple mistake that I have made worse, but that is why I planted myself in the NC.

I believe my issue lies with bumblebee conflicting with another GPU driver, but I am not sure.

Last edited by Zhme (2020-04-05 17:46:10)

Zhme

Member

Registered: 2017-06-11

Posts: 80

Re: [Solved] Nvidia driver breaks X hybrid GPU

Solved. Removed bumblebee, installed Optimus-manager, deleted xorg.conf.