Boot Stuck Hybrid (Nvidia+Intel) about archtitus

[wolfee182]

I have the Hybrid Graphics working on an Arch install on my personal Laptop. It was hard to get working the first time. It was not just installing the Intel Drivers and the Nvidia Drivers. If i remember correctly, I have to install something like NVIDIA Optimus or Bumblebee to get it working. I can look this evening and give more help.

This has been working flawlessly for over a year, so i just don't remember what the magic was off the top of my head

[wolfee182]

Here are the packages related to video drivers i have installed with my system that work:

• nvidia
• nvidia-utils
• mesa
• optimus-manager
• optimus-manager-qt

This is the only combination that i found that works on my NVidia/Intel Hybrid Laptop.
Hope this helps.

[yoss85]

Thanx @wolfee182, that solved the problem for me.

@jrock2004 - After installing what @wolfee182 indicated, I removed the old xorg.conf file under /etc/X11/ and copied /usr/share/optimus-manager.conf to /etc/optimusmanager/optimus-manager.conf. Reboot and that was it.
Check out this blog post https://e-leclercq.github.io/posts/2020/06/blog-post-2/

[wolfee182]

Since the install is trying to figure out what drivers to install, how can it be automatically detected?
Running: lspci -vnn | grep '''[030[02]]' gives me the VGA cards in my system.

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation CometLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics] [8086:9bc4] (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU106M [GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile / Max-Q Refresh] [10de:1f14] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

So the script would need to check if there are multiple card and if so then install the drivers, plus:

optimus-manager
optimus-manager-qt

I am still learning linux command line or i would try to put it together myself.

[wolfee182]

Once it has booted, Most people should be able to switch TTY by pressing "CTRL + ALT+ and a F-key like F2". (Dont use F1, because the GUI should be on that already.) Then you should see a Text based login.

You should be able to login and then use "yay -S " to install the package (for example: yay -S nvidia nvidia-utils mesa optimus-manager optimus-manager-qt)

The other way would be to boot from the arch install media and mount the new install and then chroot into your install. I am at work at the moment, so i cant give exact instructions for this method.

[yoss85]

Same here

[ChrisTitusTech]

can you check to see if you can do TTY Ctrl + Alt + F2 and then sign in

if you can you might be missing the intel-ucode driver.

[Ayehavgunne]

Same problem on XPS 15 9570.

I can switch to a different tty and sign in but the desktop interface never loads. I will try installing intel-ucode.

[Ayehavgunne]

Installing intel-ucode didn’t help :(

[ostarch]

can you check to see if you can do TTY Ctrl + Alt + F2 and then sign in

if you can you might be missing the intel-ucode driver.

1. I was able to TTY
2. Installed intel-ucode, it didn't worked
3. I forked your project Commented out The Graphics Drivers Installation Portion (1-setup.sh line 207-215) i was able to normally boot into pc, but Brightness controllers are not working
4. And being a noob, I again installed Nvidia-drivers same thing happened again, Un-Installed drivers. Nvidia is gone but the problem is still here.

[jrock2004]

@wolfee182 So this got my boot closer but still no GUI. Before installing above I would get stuck at starting hostname service.

[jrock2004]

@yoss85 That did the trick. Wondering if there is a way to ask this question during install and install these packages

[realitymolder]

Here are the packages related to video drivers i have installed with my system that work:

• nvidia
• nvidia-utils
• mesa
• optimus-manager
• optimus-manager-qt

This is the only combination that i found that works on my NVidia/Intel Hybrid Laptop. Hope this helps.

but how do you install it after the installation "fails" ?

[jrock2004]

@wolfee182 of it could just be a question that asks the user If you have multiple

[realitymolder]

Thanx @wolfee182, that solved the problem for me.

@jrock2004 - After installing what @wolfee182 indicated, I removed the old xorg.conf file under /etc/X11/ and copied /usr/share/optimus-manager.conf to /etc/optimusmanager/optimus-manager.conf. Reboot and that was it. Check out this blog post https://e-leclercq.github.io/posts/2020/06/blog-post-2/

this one helped me the most. The blog post.
I managed to remove the Xorg file and then optimus could manage the display and etc..

[ChrisTitusTech]

Try this now, it should be fixed.