Optimus Manager issues

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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No go. Stuck on a black screen with flat curser. But I can get to tty. Yay!

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Yeah, you messed up. You updated your kernel, didnā€™t reboot and then installed driversā€¦

Okay, now when you get to a TTY, run

sudo pacman -Syu

reboot

Hopefully, you wonā€™t get a black screen. Then you can worry about optimus-switch and all that other stuff.

If you get a black screen again, then try:

sudo pacman -R nvidia-dkms

sudo nvidia-installer-dkms

and reboot again.

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I got there is nothing to do. So I assume just go to the next step without needing to reboot?

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Yes. Try removing the drivers and running the installer again, then reboot.

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@shockwave before you uninstalled optimus-manager did you run the optimus-manager --cleanup command?

iā€™ll mention a couple things before i go,

  • check output of dkms status, if the nvidia drivers show for your current kernel then they are installed.

  • make sure there is not another display/monitor/gpu related conf file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ that could be conflicting with optimus-switch .conf files which are named 99-nvidia.conf or 99-intel.conf depending on which mode your in.

  • if that all looks good then do a file search for optimus manager, if you didnt run the cleanup script before uninstalling it then you probably have some of its files/configurations floating around in places like /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and whatever else optimus-manager messes with.

if you cant get to a desktop at all, try switching to intel mode from TTY and reboot so you can have a desktop while figuring out whats going on

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Hi @dglt. No I didnā€™t. Should I do that now

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you cant if you already uninstalled it

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I reinstalled the Nvidia driver.

Dkms status shows

Acpi_call, 1.1.0, 5.8.5-arch1-1, x86_64: installed
Nvidia, 450.66, 5.8.5-arch1-1, x86_64: installed

I used nano to look at the location you recommended I check. There was nothing there. It just said ā€œā€¦ Is a directoryā€

I tired switching back to Intel, but still get a black screen with a cursor. I can still get to tty.

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You canā€™t use nano to look in a directory. The command for that is ls. So:

ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
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nano is an editor, not a file manager

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Okay. There are two video files there.

20-nvidia.conf and. 99-intel.conf

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sudo rm 20-nvidia.conf
sudo set-nvidia.sh
systemctl reboot

and see if you get to a desktop now

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That did it. I am back on the desktop. Thank you!

Are there other places where I should look for hidden config files for optimus-manager

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glad it worked out

your guess is as good as mine, i never had anything but problems with optimus-manager. if itā€™s working you should be good

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Thank you very much. Now to install optimus-indicator.

Thank you everyone for all of your help.

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BTW, should I be concerned about any of this other stuff?

journalctl -p3 -xb
-- Logs begin at Sun 2020-08-23 13:57:58 PDT, end at Fri 2020-08-28 14:38:02 PDT. --
Aug 28 14:28:51 workstation0asus kernel: DMAR: [Firmware Bug]: No firmware reserved region can cover this RMRR [0x0000000078800000-0x000000007affffff], contact BIOS vendor for fixes
Aug 28 14:28:51 workstation0asus kernel: tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0xfed40000-0xfed4087f flags 0x200] vs fed40080 >
Aug 28 14:28:51 workstation0asus kernel: tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0xfed40000-0xfed4087f flags 0x200] vs fed40080 >
Aug 28 14:28:58 workstation0asus bluetoothd[774]: Failed to set mode: Blocked through rfkill (0x12)
Aug 28 14:32:07 workstation0asus gdm-password][1423]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Aug 28 14:32:09 workstation0asus bluetoothd[774]: RFCOMM server failed for Headset Voice gateway: rfcomm_bind: Address already in use (98)
Aug 28 14:32:09 workstation0asus bluetoothd[774]: RFCOMM server failed for :1.96/Profile/HSPHSProfile/00001108-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb: rfcomm_bind: Address already in use (98)
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I just got this setup working myself. Slick! Iā€™ll take it :wink: Thanks to @dglt and to @linesma for the great scripts!

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@ThisPoorGuy Glad you like it and got it working.

@shockwave Happy to see that you are up and running. It was 2am where I was and I had to go to sleep. As far as your second question goes, if you are worried, make a new thread about them. Letā€™s keep this thread about one issue, Optimus Manager issues. This will prevent any confusion in the future if another user reads it to try and solve a similar issue.

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Thank you. It seems to be working good. Thank you very much for your help. The good thing when things donā€™t go as planned is you learn a lot.

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