Hi everyone and thank you for your great work and this project. I switched recently from Optimus manager to envycontrol and everything is working fine. I noticed that my Xorg session under Gnome now runs as root. Before the change, the process ran rootless. Is this change possibly related to envycontrol or the gdm package I changed from gdm-Prime to the original gdm package? Has anyone who has also changed noticed the same behavior?

Distro: Arch Linux Kernel: 5.17.1-zen1-1-zen WM: BSPWM, startx Nvidia version: 510.60.02 Envycontrol version: 2.0

With the new 2.0 update the nvidia mode won't boot with amd/nvidia hardware. (I use startx and automatic login and startup so it just goes and restarts xorg without stopping)

pastebin for the xorg log file.

After running sudo envycontrol --switch nvidia and rebooting, sddm doesn't start and nor does xorg(By doesn't start I mean that the only thing that is displayed on the screen is a flashing white underscore)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Switch to nvidia graphics
2. Reboot

Steps to fix the problem :

1. Switching back to hybrid graphics worked for me. You might have to remove the package if that didn't fix the problem.

From what I can tell, it doesn't load up x org server when i switch to nvidia, also games (in this case "payday 2") don't launch in hybrid mode

Distro: Fedora 36 kernel version and type: 5.18.9-200.fc36.x86_64 nvidia graphics card: geforce 940mx nvidia driver version: 515.57 intel integrated graphics: Intel HD Graphics 620 EnvyControl version: 2.1.1

If i need to include more information here, please tell me. Edit: so i just ran nvidia-xconfig and i got these errors

WARNING: Unable to locate/open X configuration file.

WARNING: Unable to parse X.Org version string.

ERROR: Unable to find any GPUs in the system.

ERROR: Unable to write to directory '/etc/X11'.

Everytime I switch modes, LightDM fails to start, and checking systemd status tells me it's because start request repeated too quickly.

I need to switch to another TTY and manually start LightDM every time.

I have tried manually setting my DM (using --dm lightdm) to no avail.

I use a Lenovo Legion 5 15ARH05 with a 4800H (RX Vega 7) + GTX 1650 Ti. OS is Arch Linux.

If anyone can help that would be great. I can also provide additional information if required. Thanks!

I am running Arch Linux with KDE, running wayland on RTX 3070 laptop gpu, when i run "sudo envycontrol --switch nvidia", it asks me to reboot to change, which i do. But under settings the graphics processer is still my AMD iGPU, while on envycontrol shows nvidia.

Hi,

I'm on a new laptop, here are some basic info: ██ OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64 ██████████████████ ████████ Host: HP ZBook Power 15.6 inch G9 Mobile Worksta ████████ ████████ Kernel: 5.15.60-1-MANJARO ████████ ████████ ████████ Uptime: 8 mins ████████ ████████ ████████ Packages: 1266 (pacman) ████████ ████████ ████████ Shell: zsh 5.9 ████████ ████████ ████████ Resolution: 1920x1080 ████████ ████████ ████████ DE: GNOME 42.4 ████████ ████████ ████████ WM: Mutter ████████ ████████ ████████ WM Theme: Adwaita ████████ ████████ ████████ Theme: Adw-dark [GTK2/3] ████████ ████████ ████████ Icons: Papirus-Dark [GTK2/3] Terminal: gnome-terminal CPU: 12th Gen Intel i5-12500H (16) @ 4.500GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile GPU: Intel Alder Lake-P Memory: 1828MiB / 15631MiB

I installed envycontol.

Problems I have:

1. The external monitor connected with HDMI won't work (no signal dectected)
2. If I use hybrid/nvidia MODE, I can't login to GNOME Wayland session (only Xorg)

Questoin:

1. Which nvidia driver should I install. I see there are at least two options: (1) install video-nvidia, seems a driver dedicated to nvidia (2) install video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime / video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime

P.S. I tried the above two drivers already, neither can enable my external monitor, so I try envycontrol, still no luck.

I see envycontrol is able to not only switching GPU modes, but also to enable the external monitor, could you guide me on how to do it?

Thanks in advance.

When I use this (also with optimus manager) I get put into a login loop where when I try to login (SDDM) it goes to a black screen and puts me on the login screen again.

specs

os: archcraft wm: openbox dm: sddm cpu: i5 9300h gpu: gtx 1650 mobile

I used this project and IT OVERWROTE MY xorg.conf WITHOUT WARNING AND WITHOUT MAKING ANY BACKUP. WHY???? People sometimes write their own config files, you know, you can't just banish my configs into OBLIVION like this. The README doesn't mention this at all...

Please:

1. EXPLICITLY STATE in the README which files are going to be created or modified
2. WARN the user about the files that are going to be replaced when running the script
3. MAKE backups of modified files

==> Starting package()...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 3, in <module>
    import envycontrol
  File "/home/edbizarro/.cache/yay/envycontrol/src/envycontrol/envycontrol.py", line 139
    TEARING_FIX = f'    Option "ForceCompositionPipeline" "true"\n'
                                                                  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: envycontrol

Version 1.x was working fine.

Operating System: EndeavourOS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.17.1-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × Intel® Core™ i7-10875H CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 with Max-Q Design/PCIe/SSE2

I'm having an issue similar to #33, but with Intel/Nvidia. When switching to Nvidia and rebooting, the screen turns black and I need to Shift+Alt+F2 to switch back to hybrid. That being said I tested my system with Optimus-Manager and had no issues and my problem with transparency in KDE were fixed.

EGL applications have an extra second of startup when in integrated mode, because nvidia's glvnd library runs nvidia-modprobe, which takes a while when the nvidia GPU is off.

It seems like this project is unmaintained as stated on the website, but it would be cool if this project could do something similar to what I do here https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/6359#issuecomment-1364724766

I'm happy to open a PR if there is interest from the maintainer(s)

Hi there! I'm on Debian 11 and I'm encountering an issue with envycontrol. Every time I switch from hybrid mode to nvidia, I get a black screen after rebooting the system. No login screen, so I have to switch back to hybrid. I want to enable only my dedicated GPU, because I noticed that steam games are using the integrated card, no matter what. Any idea how to solve the problem? I have an RTX 2070, and the drivers should be properly installed. Thanx, keep on with the good work!

On my notebook (with hybrid graphics), when I set the graphics mode to Nvidia, I'm not having the choice of my proper screen-refresh rates. However, if I change the graphic chipset in the BIOS, I am able to use 240Hz.

Adding the screen refresh rates manually over xrandr on X11, as described in (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/xrandr), gives an error called crtc:0. Manually providing the EDID file, as described here (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_mode_setting#Forcing_modes_and_EDID), does also not help.

I suppose that this issue is related to the intel drivers since intel restricts the refresh rate to 60Hz. I am using Fedora 37 on X11. Any help is much appreciated.

When usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/amdgpu_drv.so is not present in the system envycontrol should default to modesetting. i had a black screen on my laptop that was fixed by install xf86-video-amdgpu.

this can also be added to the wiki.

Hi, added support for XDM and an option to include nvidia modules in initramfs (Debian-based distros). I had to modify display manager detection regex for Debian, but should work with other distros. Feel free to change as needed. I am also unsure how to include modules in initramfs for non-Debian distros, so please add if you know how to do this. Lastly I am no python guru (second program I have touched only), so apologies for any bad coding practices.

Closes #61

I (and perhaps others) use XDM. It would be nice to have an xrandr script generated into say /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90envycontrol_nvidia-xrandr if the detected display manager is xdm.