"nvidia-installer-check" says my 1080 is not supported

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I can also confirm, works! Thanks for the excellent support on this forum.

[ake@desktop ~]$ nvidia-installer-check 
Your graphics card (id: 1b80) is supported by the nvidia-dkms driver.
To install a driver for this card, you can use nvidia-installer-dkms.
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Hello @manuel
I can confirm the nvidia-installer-check is working and i checked it on my system too.

[ricklinux@eos-xfce ~]$ nvidia-installer-check
Your graphics card (id: 1b83) is supported by the nvidia-dkms driver.
To install a driver for this card, you can use nvidia-installer-dkms.

[ricklinux@eos-xfce ~]$
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@manuel, I’m still having this problem

nvidia-installer-check

grep: /tmp/nvidia.ids: No such file or directory
grep: /tmp/nvidia-390xx.ids: No such file or directory
Sorry, your Nvidia card (id: 1c8d) is not supported by nvidia-dkms nor nvidia-390xx-dkms.

lspci -vnn | grep -P 'VGA|Display’

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 630 (Mobile) [8086:3e9b] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] [10de:1c8d] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

pacman -Qs nvidia

local/bumblebee 3.2.1-21
    NVIDIA Optimus support for Linux through VirtualGL
local/egl-wayland 1.1.5-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 450.66-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libvdpau 1.4-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 450.66-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/nvidia 450.66-16
    NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/nvidia-cg-toolkit 3.1-6
    NVIDIA Cg libraries
local/nvidia-dkms 450.66-1
    NVIDIA drivers - module sources
local/nvidia-installer-db 2.4.6-1
    Database for the script to setup nvidia drivers in EndeavourOS
local/nvidia-installer-dkms 3.3.7-1
    Script to setup nvidia drivers (dkms version) in EndeavourOS
local/nvidia-settings 450.66-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 450.66-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities

nvidia-installer-update-db

Fetching NVIDIA graphics card ids from nvidia.com ...
Error: GetNvidiaIds: fetching ids from branch '173.14.39' failed.
Error: NvidiaIdsCommon: GetNvidiaIds failed.
Error: GetNvidiaIds: fetching ids from branch '173.14.39' failed.
Error: NvidiaIdsCommon: GetNvidiaIds failed.
Error: NvidiaIdsLatest: NvidiaIdsCommon failed.
Error: cannot fetch latest NVIDIA ids
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Hello @Toni
Are you currently running on Nouveau?

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@ricklinux How do I know that?

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Why nvidia-installer-update-db fetch branch 173.14.39 rather than newest 450.66 from https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/? I believe the root of my problem is around there.
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Do you have inxi installed? You can check with inxi -G
If inxi isn’t installed you can install it first.

yay -S inxi

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Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] driver: N/A 
           Device-3: Chicony HD WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.7
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Your card is GTX 1050 Mobile so it should be using the 450.xx drivers.

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/163238/en-us

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Okay it looks like it’s running off the Intel chip and no Nvidia is installed.

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Can you run this and see if you get any errors. You could post the output.

nvidia-installer-dkms -b -t

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2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: EndeavourOS Nvidia Installer v3.3.7
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: All logs will be stored in /tmp/nvidia-installer.log
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: Running the installer in testing mode...
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: Updating Nvidia graphics cards database...
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: nvidia-installer-update-db
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: Installing bumblebee driver...
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: Removing conflicting packages...
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: Downloading and installing driver packages, please wait as this may take a few minutes...
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: pacman -Sqy --noconfirm --noprogressbar bumblebee mesa xf86-video-intel nvidia-dkms virtualgl nvidia-settings bbswitch-dkms lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-virtualgl lib32-mesa
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: Adding user toni to bumblebee group...
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: gpasswd -a toni bumblebee
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: Adding user toni to video group...
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: gpasswd -a toni video
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: Enabling bumblebeed.service service...
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: systemctl enable bumblebeed.service
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: Patching /usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop...
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: /usr/bin/sed -i s|Exec=/usr/bin/nvidia-settings|Exec=optirun -b none /usr/bin/nvidia-settings -c :8| /usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf not found. That's ok.
2020-09-05 07:43:59 [INFO]: Installation finished. Nothing has been modified as testing mode was ON
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It looks like it succeeded in test mode. Is it your intention to install bumblebee? This was a test to install nvidia with bumblebee.

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Well, installing bumblebee is the first step to install optimus as stated in https://endeavouros.com/docs/hardware-and-network/graphic-cards-gpu-driver-and-setup/nvidia/nvidia-optimus-manager/

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Okay so if you want to install it.

sudo nvidia-installer-dkms -b

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Let me know how that goes.

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Same as last time I tried:

INFO:root:Removing /tmp/nvidia-installer_r.log file...
INFO:root:EndeavourOS Nvidia Installer v3.3.7
2020-09-05 07:48:45 [INFO]: EndeavourOS Nvidia Installer v3.3.7
INFO:root:All logs will be stored in /tmp/nvidia-installer_r.log
2020-09-05 07:48:45 [INFO]: All logs will be stored in /tmp/nvidia-installer_r.log
INFO:root:Updating Nvidia graphics cards database...
2020-09-05 07:48:45 [INFO]: Updating Nvidia graphics cards database...
Fetching NVIDIA graphics card ids from nvidia.com ...
Error: GetNvidiaIds: fetching ids from branch '173.14.39' failed.
Error: NvidiaIdsCommon: GetNvidiaIds failed.
Error: GetNvidiaIds: fetching ids from branch '173.14.39' failed.
Error: NvidiaIdsCommon: GetNvidiaIds failed.
Error: NvidiaIdsLatest: NvidiaIdsCommon failed.
Error: cannot fetch latest NVIDIA ids
WARNING:root:Cannot update Nvidia cards database in /var/lib/pci
2020-09-05 07:48:49 [WARNING]: Cannot update Nvidia cards database in /var/lib/pci
INFO:root:Installing bumblebee driver...
2020-09-05 07:48:49 [INFO]: Installing bumblebee driver...
INFO:root:Removing conflicting packages...
2020-09-05 07:48:49 [INFO]: Removing conflicting packages...
INFO:root:Downloading and installing driver packages, please wait as this may take a few minutes...
2020-09-05 07:48:49 [INFO]: Downloading and installing driver packages, please wait as this may take a few minutes...
INFO:root:Adding user toni to bumblebee group...
2020-09-05 07:50:19 [INFO]: Adding user toni to bumblebee group...
INFO:root:gpasswd -a toni bumblebee
2020-09-05 07:50:19 [INFO]: gpasswd -a toni bumblebee
INFO:root:Adding user toni to video group...
2020-09-05 07:50:20 [INFO]: Adding user toni to video group...
INFO:root:gpasswd -a toni video
2020-09-05 07:50:20 [INFO]: gpasswd -a toni video
INFO:root:Enabling bumblebeed.service service...
2020-09-05 07:50:20 [INFO]: Enabling bumblebeed.service service...
INFO:root:systemctl enable bumblebeed.service
2020-09-05 07:50:20 [INFO]: systemctl enable bumblebeed.service
INFO:root:Patching /usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop...
2020-09-05 07:50:20 [INFO]: Patching /usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop...
INFO:root:/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf not found. That's ok.
2020-09-05 07:50:20 [INFO]: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf not found. That's ok.
INFO:root:Installation finished. You need to reboot now!
2020-09-05 07:50:20 [INFO]: Installation finished. You need to reboot now!
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You need to reboot now!

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The problem is still remain

[toni@AN515 ~]$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] driver: N/A 
           Device-3: Chicony HD WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.7 
[toni@AN515 ~]$ nvidia-settings 

ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded


ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

[toni@AN515 ~]$
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Once you reboot. There are two Optimus Options. One is Nvidia Optimus Manager and one is Optimus Nvidia GTX 10XX

Since your card is the GTX 1050 mobile i would think you would want to use the Optimus Nvidia GTX 10XX. I don’t have a lot of experience with Optimus as i use Nvidia desktop card GTX 1060

What desktop are you running?