Anyone else running it with nvidia?

Confirmation of two things, running nvidia:

• With optimus laptop
• Without optimus

i have the same problem, i installed the nvidia driver with the doflicky tool and was left with a black screen, the only thing i tried was nvidia-xconfig, but this dit not help, i was left with a flickering curder on a black screen.

i am using an optimus laptop with a GTX 970 M and an Intel Core i7-4710HQ

and without nvidia drivers it is running fine.

I've discovered that replacing sddm with lightdm (and lightdm-gtk-greeter - see T5712) and enabling the service causes the X session to actually load with the Nvidia drivers. There is an odd side effect of text seeming smaller than usual, but I'm going to call that a side effect of using LightDM instead of SDDM.

I'm going to do some more investigation to see if I can figure out some configuration for SDDM that will fix the issue, but hopefully this will help others figure it out too.

Maybe an SDDM equivalent to linux-driver-management-lightdm-integration? I have realized that linux-driver-management-sddm-integration already exists. I'm not sure what setting with SDDM would be causing issues, then.

So to be clear and summarise the issue, it is failing to load sddm with an optimus laptop after installing nvidia drivers.

There was a conflict that I had to fix which was related to the integration package, but may need to consult with a dev who has optimus to be able to test stuff xD (and if anything comes to me I can ask you to test as well :D)

should it work now with the last update?

In T5701#103773, @domacs wrote:

should it work now with the last update?

No, I was awaiting confirmation that my summary of the issue was the issue being faced (though I see I didn't phrase it as a question with a question mark).

In T5701#103774, @sunnyflunk wrote:

No, I was awaiting confirmation that my summary of the issue was the issue being faced (though I see I didn't phrase it as a question with a question mark).

Yes, that summary seems to be correct.

Possibly related https://dev.solus-project.com/T5727

In T5701#103774, @sunnyflunk wrote:

In T5701#103773, @domacs wrote:

should it work now with the last update?

No, I was awaiting confirmation that my summary of the issue was the issue being faced (though I see I didn't phrase it as a question with a question mark).

oh, sorry, yes, i also think this seems to be right.

I also experience this issue when switching to sddm+kde from a Budgie install. @sunnyflunk, feel free to ping me if you want to test.

Proof I actually tested this :P

Sorry bout that guys.

In T5701#104446, @ikey wrote:

Proof I actually tested this :P

Sorry bout that guys.

worked for me too