Black screen on OM-welcome after nvidia driver (hybrid GPU)

Hello,

Requirements:

I have Searched the forum for my issue and found nothing related or helpful
I have checked the Resources category (Resources Index)
I have reviewed the Wiki for relevant information
I have read the the Release Notes and Errata

OpenMandriva Lx version:

6.0

Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):

KDE

Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):

I have installed the Nvidia drivers from OM-Welcome. After rebooting, the OM-Welcome screen is black.
(I installed the drivers them because games on steam were slow, but now they freezes)

I’ve come across posts mentioning to set an option to hybrid in BIOS, but my BIOS options are limited (and I can’t do anything to display the more advanced options).

I’m new to linux, so I don’t really know what to do?

Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):

Laptop with integrated graphics and a graphic card.

@Lady
welcome1

https://forum.openmandriva.org/search?q=om-welcome%20order%3Alatest_topic
Anything useful?

Thanks @rugyada, but I don’t see anything that solves my issue from the link you posted.
However, I’ve come across this : Request for prime-run
It mentions envycontrol, with it being ‘already packaged’. What does that mean? I don’t find anything by that name in Discover and DnfDrake?

Please don’t use Discover to install/remove packages :wink:
DnfDrake is good as GUI.

envycontrol is in the /extra repository, you need to enable extra in Software Repository Selector (om-repo-picker)

After the changes run the following command in console
$ sudo dnf clean all ; dnf clean all ; dnf repolist

Thank you, I managed to install it. When switching to integrated, it works normally.
However, I need to use the hybrid or nvidia mode (otherwise games are too slow). But in those modes, I still have the issue of OM-Welcome displaying just a black screen and games crashing… I’m not sure what else to do? Are there more drivers than the Nvidia drivers from the OM-welcome that I need to install?

We have some reports of certain setups not working without nvidia-prime. It was recently added to our development version Cooker. @rugyada may have created a test package for it, but I don’t think one was made for 6.0.

Normally, you want only the nvidia card configured/enabled in BIOS. Please also make sure your system firmware (BIOS) is up to date.

https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/distribution/issues/3264
New entries in OpenMandriva repositories - #92 by rugyada

nvidia-prime is in /non-free repo, just published also for ROME and 6.0

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Thank you! I’ll check it out.

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