Would be nice to see what happens in that looping…
How do I see/show that?
New day new me. I want to try
https://endeavouros.com/docs/hardware-and-network/graphic-cards-gpu-driver-and-setup/nvidia/bumblebee-for-nvidia-optimus/
as a last resort. Need someone to walk me through the steps.
https://endeavouros.com/docs/hardware-and-network/graphic-cards-gpu-driver-and-setup/nvidia/bumblebee-for-nvidia-optimus/#disable-and-remove-nouveau
Use the default LiveMedia boot menu option. Edit the boot line and add to it the following parameter:
Is this referring to the text editor screen that comes up after pressing ‘e’ in the kernel choosing menu during boot?
did you manage to make your nvidia driver installed? I would say that is the first prerequisite. Else perhaps consider trying a reinstall of eos first via the iso with nvidia driver. Then connect you external monitor and post which drivers are in use. If the nvidia gpu is enabled it means it works. You could then reboot and in bios choose to use only your nvidia gpu. If this doesnt work, then install eos without nvidia and need to find the right driver for your gpu via AUR perhaps.
it does not make sense to me why it was recommended you install bumblebee if your nvidia driver is not working. That creates more problems or am I missing something?
edit: just to clarify both of them are only there to switch between intel or nvidia gpu on your laptop but none of these package will solve your issue with nvidia drivers, at least not that I know of.
I have spend months distro hopping, trying bumblebee then optimus, to switch graphics on my laptopscreen. My conclusion is that it is not there yet and unstable. And this with any of the distros I used including mint, fedora, pop os, manjaro.
I think so.
Read in some quora post that nvidia support is better for distros with stable releases, unlike rolling release arch/arch based distros. Don’t know how true that is though.
Awesome, looks like it worked, can you login?
For me it worked on mint for example until I got an update, it can also break. I also looked up lenovo, they I have an installation sheet for linux including debian. I was curious because I purchased a new laptop last fall with hybrid graphics, and no way to make this thing work long term with switching graphics. lenovo was giving support for linux, was wondering how they deal with hybrid graphics. their recommendation in these install sheets is to switch off the intel and only run the nvidia gpu via bios…
edit: currently I use my nvidia only on connected external monitor, zero problems since January. However, it is good to be adventurous, perhaps it may work for you. I just hate to see you abandon eos because of this, I can just say nvidia drivers are a sh… show on all distros, especially fot hybrid cards and switching.
Does it still boot up and just loop?
I can’t login, everytime I enter the password, it just brings me back to the login screen after a few seconds of black screen.
Yeah.
shoot. Did you try another DE? wondering if something is up with your hardware and budgie, but maybe far fetched.
you are not using wayland, is there perhaps another session mode you can select at login?
Yeah, tried xfce, that didn’t work either.
Need help with this. Or is this also futile?
So what do you want to do? Try Re-installing it again?
@ricklinux looks like nvidia and bumblebee are installed. Not sure whats next, @opara is trying to follow the bumblebee install on the link above. Just wondering whether it may be worth disabling dual gpu in bios and try just to run on nvidia. if it works.
@opara may be able to set the graphics to discrete in graphics configuration in the Bios. Needs to check and see.
At this point, I’ll just reinstall endeavourOS or install some other distro. Spent the whole of yesterday on this problem. Now no more!
Maybe if you are going to try another distro. Try PopOS because they have a Hybrid graphics setting and they have an Nvidia ISO to download also. So make sure you download the Nvidia ISO. This is what i would recommend because they do a good job with Nvidia. It would be interesting to see if it works or not.
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That is true, pop os could work. careful to not use wayland session, it does not bode well with nvidia, not sure whether they run xorg but I had some screen freeze after a while…
I don’t think they would use Wayland on the Nvidia as it is my understanding Nvidia so far hasn’t worked well on Wayland but it’s coming. But, I’m not sure on it either. I’ve never really noticed the times ive had it installed.
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