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PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 11:10 pm    Post subject: xorg-server-1.18.4 breaks X with NVIDIA optimus [SOLVED] Reply with quote

I recently did an an emerge world and was upgraded to xorg-server-1.18.4, which ended up breaking X for my setup. I've a laptop using an NVIDIA optimus chip, which had been working flawlessly before with the xorg.conf

Code:

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

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "nvidia"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "nvidia"
    Device         "nvidia"
    #Option         "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
    #Option         "UseDisplayDevice" "none"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "intel"
    Driver         "modesetting"
    BusID          "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "intel"
    Device         "intel"
EndSection


and a .xinitrc with

Code:

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


at the top. What appeared to change is that xrandr could no longer find
Code:
modesetting
as a provider for the command

Code:

xrandr --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0


Downgrading to 1.7.4 seemed to fix things. Specifically, I now mask

Code:

>=x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.10
>=x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.18
>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.18


That said, does anyone know what changed between xorg-server 1.17 and 1.18 that would cause this sort of thing to break?


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 2:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Funny enough, a combination of the things in that post fixed it for me. Thanks!

For reference in case anyone runs into this on their setup, I'm running on a Clevo W230SS or a Sager NP7338. My new xorg.conf file is:
Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "layout"
    Screen      1  "nvidia"
    Inactive       "intel"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "nvidia"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "nvidia"
    Device         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "intel"
    Driver         "modesetting"
    BusID          "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "intel"
    Device         "intel"
EndSection


Note, we're now on screen 1 and not screen 0 as before. In addition, I needed to recompile xorg-server with the glamor flag. In other words, I added

Code:
x11-base/xorg-server glamor


to package.use.

Thanks again for pointing me to that other thread!
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