Need Help with Nvidia Drivers:N/A

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Only certain HP notebook computers come with Optimus technology. If your computer came with Intel IPG and NVIDIA Optimus graphics, HP has already preconfigured your system to work with Optimus. Most of the time, you do not have to do anything to use NVIDIA Optimus graphics.

You should try Kde. Install it and use the nvidia option on the live ISO. Then maybe we could go from there. Hyprland is a bit more complex and since this is a hybrid laptop it makes it even more so. But is entirely up to you. Also i would check that the UEFI Bios is up to date.

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I hope so too.

Nope, there isn’t.

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I have tried KDE, Still it shows N/A, Same thing with Live ISO with Nvidia option.

Yes it is up to date.

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Did you install optimus-manager and try switching graphics?

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iirc, I did. It also gave me some weird error.
I am on KDE x11 right now, and if I use prime-run nvidia-settings
this is what i get:

ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded
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I would remove the prime and try reverting to nouveau with

nvidia-inst -n

Then reboot and see what shows.

inxi -Ga

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Of course this is all based on Windows but at least it shows how your laptop is supposed to work.

https://support.hp.com/ca-en/document/c03519217

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Also how did you install Hyprland. Did you use one of the avavilable scripts?

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Reverted to Nouveau:

Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20
    ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:3ea0 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: N/A alternate: nouveau non-free: 545.xx+ status: current (as of
    2023-10; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Pascal code: GP10x process: TSMC 16nm
    built: 2016-2021 pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63 link-max: gen: 6
    speed: 64 GT/s bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1d13 class-ID: 0302
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.4
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting dri: iris gpu: i915
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x439d built: 2018 res: 1920x1080
    hz: 60 dpi: 128 gamma: 1.2 size: 382x215mm (15.04x8.46") diag: 438mm (17.3")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
    device: 1 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
    inactive: gbm,wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.3.5-arch1.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (WHL
    GT2) device-ID: 8086:3ea0 memory: 14.99 GiB unified: yes
  API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.

Still on KDE.

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I used this script exactly.

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Okay so it doesn’t even show nouveau as loaded. Do you have optimus manager installed?

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Yes I do.

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optimus-manager --switch nvidia
WARNING : no power management option is currently enabled (this is the default since v1.2). Switching between GPUs will work but you will likely experience poor battery life.
Follow instructions at https://github.com/Askannz/optimus-manager/wiki/A-guide--to-power-management-options to enable power management.

modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia not found.
WARNING : the nvidia module does not seem to be available for the current kernel. It is likely the Nvidia driver was not properly installed. GPU switching will probably fail,
 continue anyway ? (y/N)
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Okay so i do know there have been issue with optimus-manager itself so maybe uninstall it for now. Then lets try installing nvidia the old fashioned way. Make sure you reboot first after removing optimus-manager.

Then try installing nvidia this way.

sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-libgl nvidia-settings

Reboot and then check again

inxi -Ga

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should I blacklist Nouveau?

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No lets just see what happens.

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:: Building initramfs for linux-lts (6.6.15-1-lts)
dracut-install: Failed to find module 'nvidia'
dracut: FAILED:  /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D /var/tmp/dracut.DHd3On/initramfs --kerneldir /lib/modules/6.6.15-1-lts/ -m nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm
:: Building initramfs for linux (6.7.3-arch1-1)

noticed this while installing.

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I think that is because you also have the lts kernel installed?

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oh right i use Zen kernel so i should install nvidia-dkms right:?

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Well installing nvidia manually would need the nvidia-lts and also the version for zen. So maybe since you have optimus-manager removed try installing nvidia again with the tool.

nvidia-inst