Super User Asked by Dolf Andringa on February 1, 2021
I’ve been trying for at least a year to get optimus working on my Fedora laptop with optimus and a Geforce MX150 GPU using gnome shell and wayland. In earlier versions I have tried bumblebee, but have had trouble (although there was a point in time I had it working I think a long while ago, but not in F31 at least). Now I upgraded to F32, and I read that bumblebee is no longer needed for optimus/nvidia gpu’s and I can just use the __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia environment variables. So I thought to give it a go.
I checked out https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Optimus and still no luck. In windows (dual boot), it works fine, so it’s not a hardware issue.
If I run glxinfo, I get the following error:
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia glxinfo | grep vendor
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 150 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 24 (X_GLXCreateNewContext)
Value in failed request: 0x0
Serial number of failed request: 39
Current serial number in output stream: 40
The card seems to be there though, and the drivers are loaded:
nvidia-smi
Wed May 20 10:25:44 2020
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 440.82 Driver Version: 440.82 CUDA Version: 10.2 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 MX150 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 44C P8 N/A / N/A | 0MiB / 2002MiB | 0% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
uname -a
Linux matebook-x-pro 5.6.12-300.fc32.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 11 16:47:13 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lsmod|grep -e"nvidia|nouveau"
nvidia_drm 57344 1
nvidia_modeset 1118208 1 nvidia_drm
nvidia_uvm 1093632 0
nvidia 20512768 17 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
ipmi_msghandler 118784 2 ipmi_devintf,nvidia
drm_kms_helper 241664 2 nvidia_drm,i915
drm 598016 16 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm,i915
This is what’s installed and the configuration files:
dnf list "*nvidia*" --installed
Installed Packages
akmod-nvidia.x86_64 3:440.82-1.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree
kmod-nvidia-5.6.11-200.fc31.x86_64.x86_64 3:440.82-1.fc31 @@commandline
kmod-nvidia-5.6.12-300.fc32.x86_64.x86_64 3:440.82-1.fc32 @@commandline
kmod-nvidia-5.6.8-200.fc31.x86_64.x86_64 3:440.82-1.fc31 @@commandline
nvidia-persistenced.x86_64 3:440.82-1.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
nvidia-settings.x86_64 3:440.82-1.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
nvidia-texture-tools.x86_64 2.0.8-22.fc32 @fedora
nvidia-xconfig.x86_64 3:440.82-1.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 3:440.82-1.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda.x86_64 3:440.82-1.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.i686 3:440.82-1.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64 3:440.82-1.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64 3:440.82-1.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 3:440.82-1.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 3:440.82-1.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
Kernel parameters:
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf
Section "Module"
Load "modesetting"
EndSection
Section "OutputClass"
Identifier "nvidia"
MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
Option "SLI" "Auto"
Option "BaseMosaic" "on"
Option "PrimaryGPU" "yes"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout"
Option "AllowNVIDIAGPUScreens"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "iGPU"
Driver "modesetting"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
lspci|grep -i "vga|nvidia"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX150] (rev a1)
cat /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf
options nvidia NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement=0x02
cat /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules
# disable Wayland on Hi1710 chipsets
#ATTR{vendor}=="0x19e5", ATTR{device}=="0x1711", RUN+="/usr/libexec/gdm-disable-wayland"
# disable Wayland when using the proprietary nvidia driver
#DRIVER=="nvidia", RUN+="/usr/libexec/gdm-disable-wayland"
# disable Wayland if modesetting is disabled
#IMPORT{cmdline}="nomodeset", RUN+="/usr/libexec/gdm-disable-wayland"
I tried nVidia proprietary driver and rpmfusion.org with an Optimus. Both of them were working fine with X11.
As for steps to get it run:
docs.nvidia.com – see Installation guide for Linux – there is a readme file.
rpmfusion.org is also well documented.
Long story short: for nVidia proprietary you may need extra steps especially with regular system updates. As for rpmfusion: It will survive more updates until „black screen of death“ appears. You will be able to get terminal access through Ctrl+Alt+F5 (so it will be not completely dead).
General steps for rpmfusion (open source nVidia drivers) + Gnome + X11
For a bullet proof guide it will probably need several pages of instructions what to check (like if this than that). I believe this one will guide you to get it done easily though.
Answered by user10411608 on February 1, 2021
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