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i am unable to start lightdm after installing optimus. there dont seem to be any errors in the logs for light but whenever i try to start it it stops immediately. i am able to access a tty
i tried following the steps for just nvidia gpu and they did not work
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA_Optimus#LightDM
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=733
[+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.d/20-optimus-manager.conf
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module local
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xremote
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Using D-Bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.01s] 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 has property CanMultiSession=no
[+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
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Could not run plymouth --ping: Failed to execute child process “plymouth” (No such file or directory)
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Using VT 7
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Starting local X display on VT 7
[+0.02s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log
[+0.02s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Writing X server authority to /run/lightdm/root/:0
[+0.02s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Launching X Server
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Launching process 739: /usr/bin/X :0 -seat seat0 -auth /run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
[+0.02s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Loading users from org.freedesktop.Accounts
[+0.02s] DEBUG: User /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000 added
[+0.04s] DEBUG: Seat seat0 changes active session to
[+0.14s] DEBUG: Process 739 exited with return value 1
[+0.14s] DEBUG: XServer 0: X server stopped
[+0.14s] DEBUG: Releasing VT 7
[+0.14s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Removing X server authority /run/lightdm/root/:0
[+0.14s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Display server stopped
[+0.15s] DEBUG: Launching process 741: /sbin/prime-switch
[+0.19s] DEBUG: Process 741 exited with return value 0
[+0.19s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Exit status of /sbin/prime-switch: 0
[+0.19s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping session
[+0.19s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Session stopped
[+0.19s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping display server, no sessions require it
[+0.19s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping; greeter display server failed to start
[+0.19s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping
[+0.19s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopped
[+0.19s] DEBUG: Required seat has stopped
[+0.19s] DEBUG: Stopping display manager
[+0.19s] DEBUG: Display manager stopped
[+0.19s] DEBUG: Stopping daemon
[+0.19s] DEBUG: Exiting with return value 1journalctl -p 3
Jun 12 02:13:04 poslop-a kernel: pci 0000:00:07.0: DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid
Jun 12 02:13:06 poslop-a kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: PPM init failed (-110)
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: usb 3-7: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 2 on unit 2: -32 (exp. 1).
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: usb 3-7: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 3 on unit 2: -32 (exp. 1).
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: usb 3-7: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 6 on unit 2: -32 (exp. 1).
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: usb 3-7: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 7 on unit 2: -32 (exp. 1).
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: usb 3-7: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 8 on unit 2: -32 (exp. 1).
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: usb 3-7: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 9 on unit 2: -32 (exp. 1).
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: usb 3-7: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 10 on unit 2: -32 (exp. 1).
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: usb 3-7: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 1 on unit 2: -32 (exp. 1).
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: usb 3-7: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 4 on unit 2: -32 (exp. 1).
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: usb 3-7: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 5 on unit 2: -32 (exp. 1).
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: usb 3-7: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 11 on unit 2: -32 (exp. 1).
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: usb 3-7: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 2 on unit 1: -32 (exp. 1).
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: usb 3-7: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 3 on unit 1: -32 (exp. 1).
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: usb 3-7: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 4 on unit 1: -32 (exp. 1).
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: uvcvideo 3-7:1.1: Failed to query (129) UVC probe control : -32 (exp. 26).
Jun 12 02:13:09 poslop-a kernel: uvcvideo 3-7:1.1: Failed to initialize the device (-5).
Jun 12 02:13:10 poslop-a kernel: spi-nor spi0.0: BFPT parsing failed. Please consider using SPI_NOR_SKIP_SFDP when declaring the flash
Jun 12 02:13:10 poslop-a systemd-udevd[424]: could not read from '/sys/module/pcc_cpufreq/initstate': No such device
Jun 12 02:13:11 poslop-a kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Malformed MSFT vendor event: 0x02
Jun 12 02:13:12 poslop-a systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.Offline
this is on a tuf f15 gaming laptop
i7 12700h
3060
kernel is 5.18
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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=275242
found this ill investigate later
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