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taholah222

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Registered: 2020-09-02

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Dell Precision 5510 (XPS 15 9550) - Issues with NVIDIA drivers

I'm attempting to get PRIME set up on this machine, however whenever I configure Xorg to use the nvidia GPU, X fails to start.
Using nvida proprietary drivers

$ xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x49 cap: 0xb, Source Output, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 6 associated providers: 0 name:Intel
Provider 1: id: 0x284 cap: 0x0 crtcs: 0 outputs: 0 associated providers: 0 name:NVIDIA-G0

$ DRI_PRIME=1 glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
libGL error: failed to create dri screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2)

$ lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06)
	DeviceName:  Onboard IGD
	Subsystem: Dell Device 06e5
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01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107GLM [Quadro M1000M] (rev a2)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 06e5
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia

[    50.786] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
[    50.786] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[    50.786] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[    50.788] (==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
[    50.788] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
[    50.788] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
[    50.788] (**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[    50.788] (==) No device specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
	Using the first device section listed.
[    50.788] (**) |   |-->Device "Nvidia Card"
[    50.788] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
	Using a default monitor configuration.
[    50.788] (==) Automatically adding devices
[    50.788] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[    50.788] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[    50.788] (==) Automatically binding GPU devices

Last edited by taholah222 (2020-09-02 20:30:09)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,087

Re: Dell Precision 5510 (XPS 15 9550) - Issues with NVIDIA drivers

Remove the xorg conf and use nvidia-prime and not DRI_PRIME=1 for the nvidia driver

taholah222

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Registered: 2020-09-02

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Re: Dell Precision 5510 (XPS 15 9550) - Issues with NVIDIA drivers

Remove the xorg conf and use nvidia-prime and not DRI_PRIME=1 for the nvidia driver

$ nvidia-prime glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
bash: nvidia-prime: command not found

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,087

Re: Dell Precision 5510 (XPS 15 9550) - Issues with NVIDIA drivers

Install the nvidia-prime package... https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PR … er_offload

Last edited by V1del (2020-09-03 08:10:16)