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

ricklinux · September 5, 2020, 1:39am

Check

 systemctl status bumblbeed.service

Hope this is the right command?

Toni · September 5, 2020, 1:42am

Disabled bumblebee service, then reboot. Still Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] driver: N/A and no switch tray.

ricklinux · September 5, 2020, 1:43am

Hmm? This should be correct as far as i know. Everything looks installed correctly so maybe @joekamprad can help here since he is the nvidia guru?

ricklinux · September 5, 2020, 1:47am

I would leave things as they are for now until we get some other direction because i’m sure it’s installed right. Just something I’m missing here? Looks like what the wiki states but like i say these dual graphics are a bit challenging sometimes.

Edit: Maybe @jonathon has an idea as he knows more than i.

Toni · September 5, 2020, 1:52am

I’ll wait until Tuesday, if hybrid is too complicated maybe I just use nvidia proprietary driver only.

ricklinux · September 5, 2020, 1:52am

The other option is you may have to install straight nvidia with bumblebee and then optimus instead of the dkms version.

Read this post here where user had sort of similar problem.

ricklinux · September 5, 2020, 1:56am

Sorry, I can’t be more help than this. Should be able to get it working I’m sure. It may just take a little more time and expertise.

joekamprad · September 5, 2020, 8:28am

the checker script for Nvidia IDS is currently not getting the db files, ther is a change upstream on Nvidia webside i would say, we need first to fix this… installing seem to work also without working check… if not you can also force to do so…

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/nvidia-installer-update-db-fetchs-the-most-out-dated-branch

Toni · September 5, 2020, 12:03pm

It’s working now, The optimus-manager-qt’s icon doesn’t show up in my tray so I must switch to Nvidia mode via optimus-manager --switch nvidia command. Now all my application is using Nvida GPU and I can open nvidia-settings . Cheers.

EDIT:
How to make optimus-manager-qt icon appears at tray:

Run optimus-manager-qt command
Right click tray icon>settings>general
Check ‘Launch at startup’

manuel · September 5, 2020, 1:08pm

You’re right, Nvidia has changed how they show their Nvidia products.
I’m currently working on it, and hopefully this gets solved in the near future.

joekamprad · September 5, 2020, 1:12pm

i could be with you if you hint me to it or on testing, i still have nvidia card, but ordered AMD one

ricklinux · September 5, 2020, 1:50pm

Thanks! Like a said i don’t have a lot of experience with these optimus hybrid graphics but i figured it was installed correctly as i didn’t see any error’s in the installation. Knew i was missing something in the mix. Glad it’s working.

Pudge · September 5, 2020, 5:03pm

Same here, I still have the GEForce GTX 1050 Ti and the GEForce GT 640.

Pudge

manuel · September 5, 2020, 5:10pm

Please do test it! The more cards are tested, the better.

So, command nvidia-installer-check needs testing. No parameters needed.

anon49550872 · September 5, 2020, 5:12pm

[marcelo@linux ~]$ nvidia-installer-check
grep: /tmp/nvidia.ids: Arquivo ou diretório inexistente
grep: /tmp/nvidia-390xx.ids: Arquivo ou diretório inexistente
Sorry, your Nvidia card (id: 2184) is not supported by nvidia-dkms nor nvidia-390xx-dkms.
[marcelo@linux ~]$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660] (rev a1)

manuel · September 5, 2020, 5:15pm

Did you update nvidia-installer-db to the latest version 2.4.7-1 ?

anon49550872 · September 5, 2020, 5:17pm

Just did.

[marcelo@linux ~]$ sudo pacman -Ss nvidia-installer-db
[sudo] senha para marcelo: 
endeavouros/nvidia-installer-db 2.4.6-1 [instalado]
    Database for the script to setup nvidia drivers in EndeavourOS
[marcelo@linux ~]$ checkupdates
nvidia-installer-db 2.4.6-1 -> 2.4.7-1
reflector 2020.8.19-2 -> 2020.9-1

[marcelo@linux ~]$ nvidia-installer-check
Your graphics card (id: 2184) is supported by the nvidia-dkms driver.
To install a driver for this card, you can use nvidia-installer-dkms.

manuel · September 5, 2020, 5:22pm

Great!

Pudge · September 5, 2020, 10:29pm

@manuel
Here are the results for the Nvidia GEForce GTX 1050 Ti

$ nvidia-installer-check
Your graphics card (id: 1c82) is supported by the nvidia-dkms driver.
To install a driver for this card, you can use nvidia-installer-dkms.

I will swap out video cards and report back shortly.

Reporting back.
I am checking this on a computer reserved for testing x86_64 EndeavourOS stuff.
When I fired it up, it needed 167 updates, as most of my testing lately has been on arm.
After updating and getting into BIOS and changing from internal graphics to PCI, I installed the GTX 1050 Ti. As per above the Nvidia GEForce GTX 1050 Ti booted right up and I checked nvidia-installer-check. I never did actually install any Nvidia drivers, as the internal graphics are in the Ryzen 5 3400G.

Then I swapped out to the Nvidia GEForce GT 640. It booted as far as grub, then “starting version 246.4-1-arch” was very blurred. After that complete jibberish.
I swapped this card out for the other GT 640 I had, same results. At this point curiosity got the better of me and I swapped in the GTX 1050 Ti from previously. It booted up perfect.

I am sure both video cards worked last time I tested nvidia-installer-dkms, but obviously that was 167 updates previous. My guess is either Nvidia or something in the newest kernel isn’t supporting the GT 640 anymore.

I hope that helped at least a little.

OT
I have an AMD RADEON rx560 video card that works perfect in Windows, but not with Linux. Since we are now up to kernel 5.8.x this would be a good chance to check this out while the test computer is hooked up.

Pudge

joekamprad · September 5, 2020, 11:47pm

is this not one moved to legacy shortly? so need the 340 drivers?