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nvidia drivers and xorg problems

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djk44883
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Re: nvidia drivers and xorg problems

#16 Post by djk44883 »

There seem to be issues specifically with lightdm and nvidia driver.

Some answers insist /etc/X11/xorg.conf with a minimum https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... =922679#17 from this bug report. From other post, may not be limited to include light-locker.

Searching lightdm nvidia might lend some fresh clues

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Re: nvidia drivers and xorg problems

#17 Post by albsanrom »

OK, that's it. I've solved it. You can see from lspci -nn | egrep -i "3d|display|vga" before that I actually have two graphics cards, one integrated Intel, and one dedicated NVIDIA. So I have installed this and that's it, now I'm able to use my GUI.

Actually, a quick look at (optirun) nvidia-smi:

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Mon Aug 12 14:28:27 2019       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 390.116                Driver Version: 390.116                   |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce 840M        Off  | 00000000:03:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   45C    P0    N/A /  N/A |      5MiB /  2004MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0      5143      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                             4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
And you can see Xorg is using nvidia for the display manager, isn't it?

The only trouble is that it isn't as automatic as in Windows, I need to use optirun to run applications with nvidia. And now I don't understand how Kali and Debian 10 do it. I'll keep investigating.

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Re: nvidia drivers and xorg problems

#18 Post by djk44883 »

VICTORY! I had skimmed over something, concerning OPTIUM drivers for nvidia - didn't think it relevant.

NVIDIA support has a line to add to lightdm.conf ,shell script for "switching" displays

Yes, why, "it" doesn't load intel drivers and take off from there instead? who knows.

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Re: nvidia drivers and xorg problems

#19 Post by albsanrom »

albsanrom wrote:OK, that's it. I've solved it.
Not really.

I can get cuda with hashcat going (for instance), but everything else remains the same (I think, I hope). Runnning nvidia-settings warns me in a window:

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You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your
X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the
X server.
Which, of course, sends me to another host of problems I described earlier when running nvidia-xconfig.

With respect to gaming, I don't think steam is running on my nvidia. I don't know why. Also, when I go in and out of sleep mode I can't get nvidia running anymore... It's a mess!

I didn't think I wasn't using my nvidia card at all on Linux until now. Do the nouveau drivers even work? They always return errors on boot with every new installation, but I always shut them down somehow.

I don't think I'm ever going to buy NVIDIA cards in the near future. I'll have to stick this out, and game on Windows :/

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Re: nvidia drivers and xorg problems

#20 Post by stevepusser »

It may be too messed up by now to fix. I wish you had let us know from the very start that you had a laptop, then we would have suspected an Optimus system.

If you want to try MX Linux, which is built on top of a Stretch base, we have an Nvidia installer that detects an Optimus system and automatically sets up Bumblebee, the correct Nvidia driver, and the 32-bit libraries on 64-bit for you. Just don't choose the option to install the driver from the test repo right now, we have to fix something in that. Just stick with the driver from Stretch for now.
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