Official driver 384.59 with GeForce 1050m doesn't work on openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hello!

I’ve got a brand new Lenovo laptop with GeForce 1050m. After installing openSUSE Tumbleweed and KDE desktop environment (with open source drivers), it worked well but the system gradually didn’t respond after startup. So I removed mesa-dri-nouveau and successfully installed official driver 384.59. When I configured with nvidia-xconfig and rebooted, X did not load and the whole screen kept blinking.

I have to use NetworkManager GUI to get online, so it is impossible to run nvidia-bug-report.sh via SSH. I’ll post a bug report tarball generated when using builtin drivers if it helps.

Any advice?

x-nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (91.3 KB)

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It’s an Optimus system, you have to configure it to use PRIME:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/319.12/README/randr14.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus#Display_Managers

In short, use a xorg.conf like this:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "layout"
    Screen      0  "nvidia" 0 0
    Inactive       "intel"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    Modeline "1280x720_60.00"  74.48  1280 1336 1472 1664  720 721 724 746  -HSync +Vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "intel"
    Driver         "modesetting"
    Option         "AccelMethod" "none"
    BusID          "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "nvidia"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
    Option         "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "nvidia"
    Device         "nvidia"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Virtual     1920 1080
    EndSubSection
EndSection

and set your DE to run this on startup:

xrandr --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0
xrandr --auto

e.g. from GDM/Gnome, create two files optimus.desktop in /etc/xdg/autostart/ and /usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart/ containing

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Optimus
Exec=sh -c "xrandr --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0; xrandr --auto"
NoDisplay=true
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=DisplayServer

Here another user made a script to set everything up automatically on Debian:
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1024318/linux/-solved-nvidia-prime-on-dual-gpu-configuration-giving-a-blank-screen/post/5210971/#5210971

To get rid of tearing, use kernel parameter

nvidia-drm.modeset=1

In case of Ubuntu, you might have to add a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ containing

options nvidia_XXX_drm modeset=1

with XXX being the major version of the installed nvidia driver.
After that, run

sudo update-initramfs -u

and reboot.

sudo cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset

should return ‘Y’ if done right.

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Hello @generix :

Following your hint, I found an tutorial for Bumblebee on openSUSE website. Then I installed Bumblebee. Now it works.

Thanks a lot!