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Re: [GUIDE] How to properly install Nvidia Non-Bumblebee drivers on Optimus Laptops
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:16 am
by sommenom
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In situations where you might have multiple GPUs on a system and X fails to start with:
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(EE) No divices detected.
(EE) Fatal server error
No screens found
Then you need to add your discrete card's BusID to your X configuration. This can happen on systems with an Intel CPU and an integrated GPU or if you have more than one Nvidia card connected. Find your BusID:
Then add BusID to xorg.conf similarly like
4.1 Know the BusID of your dGPU card
and
4.2 Create/Modify xorg.conf
SDDM:
Try copy file Xsetup
from
/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup
to
/etc/sddm
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Re: [GUIDE] How to properly install Nvidia Non-Bumblebee drivers on Optimus Laptops [Solved]
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:28 am
by SwampRabbit
cer0 wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 6:09 am
Hi, I follow this tutorial using MX with KDE that uses sddm as Display manager and the setup script is in /use/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup.
I reboot after step 5 and got a black screen in tty7.
The Xorg log says
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(EE) No divices detected.
(EE) Fatal server error
No screens found
Any suggestions??
I suggest you go back to the help thread you started and not use a guide that is very old post (10 months) by someone who posted 3 times to the forum and never came back.
Several folks (developers and guides) were trying to help you there. Hint: on a fresh install choose "optimus enabled" during Nvidia Driver installer, reboot, add boot code
Re: [GUIDE] How to properly install Nvidia Non-Bumblebee drivers on Optimus Laptops
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:25 am
by Leonard_Linux
Hello,
thank you for the guide. I have been stuck with the error message
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nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.
In /var/log/syslog I saw that the problem was me having no /dev/nvidia* files. That wondered me since my Nvidia card is installed and working with Bumblebee. In the end it was quite simple. Typing
solved the problem. The /dev/nvidia* files showed up and nvidia-persistenced initialised succsessfully. I am posting this here for anyone having the same problem.
Best regards,
Leonard
Re: [GUIDE] How to properly install Nvidia Non-Bumblebee drivers on Optimus Laptops
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2023 8:20 pm
by NewDecrypter
I would just like to add on some versions of MX the binary is nvidia-detect-mx for clarity. At least on my version of mx linux
Re: [GUIDE] How to properly install Nvidia Non-Bumblebee drivers on Optimus Laptops
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2023 1:37 am
by Trunglao
I tried using the MX Tools Nvidia driver on MX 23 AHS (KDE) and it broke the GUI, as it force installed quite an advanced driver.
Found this guide and it worked perfectly. Thanks.
In case this helps someone else, the system is a Clevo laptop with Nvidia 1070M GPU and I7 7700HQ (630 integrated Intel graphics)
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