Can't switch to nvidia with suse-prime

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Hi,

I’m having difficulties to switch to the nvidia gpu on my laptop using suse-prime and following the official docs: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_SUSE_Prime .
The hardware an older Lenovo IdeaPad S410p with a Geforce 720M. I have secureboot and plymouth disabled, the DM is SDDM, using an extra screen connected over hdmi.

Hyorinmaru:~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev e4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev e4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev e4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller (rev 04)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8172 Fast Ethernet (rev 10)
04:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] (rev a1)

 ~  neofetch --off
apinter@Hyorinmaru
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OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed x86_64
Host: 20296 Lenovo IdeaPad S410p
Kernel: 5.8.0-1-default
Uptime: 20 mins
Packages: 3433 (rpm), 14 (flatpak)
Shell: zsh 5.8
Resolution: 2560x1080
DE: Plasma 5.19.4
WM: KWin
WM Theme: Arc-Dark
Theme: Arc Dark [Plasma], Adwaita-dark [GTK2], Breeze-Dark [GTK3]
Icons: Papirus-Dark [Plasma], Papirus-Dark [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
Terminal Font: BlexMono Nerd Font 9
CPU: Intel i5-4200U (4) @ 2.600GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M
GPU: Intel Haswell-ULT
Memory: 5081MiB / 11678MiB

I’ve installed the nvidia driver from the Nvidia repo (https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed), ending with the following nvidia packages:


Hyorinmaru:~ # rpm -qa | grep nvidia
nvidia-computeG05-450.57-38.1.x86_64
nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default-450.57_k5.7.9_1-38.2.x86_64
x11-video-nvidiaG05-450.57-38.1.x86_64
nvidia-glG05-450.57-38.1.x86_64
kernel-firmware-nvidia-20200807-1.1.noarch

Hyorinmaru:~ # rpm -qa | grep suse-prime
plasma5-applet-suse-prime-1.1-1.3.noarch
suse-prime-0.7.14-1.1.noarch

Once I try to switch prime-select shows the follwoing error:


Hyorinmaru:~ # prime-select nvidia

ERROR: Unable to query GPU information

Reconfiguration failed
Restoring previous configuration: undefined

dmesg output: https://pastebin.com/ePA0SywD
lsmod output: https://pastebin.com/X1QjUkB2

Any help would be much appreciated.

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For now, if you want to use G05 driver set, revert back to kernel 5.7.*. The driver hasn’t been built for kernel 5.8.0. yet. https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/X11:Drivers:Video

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Well yes, that is a pretty good reason for it not to work.
Interesting thing is that I also tried with suse-prime-bbswitch and that claimed that the switch was done, but in reality it did not take effect. Will wait for it to be finished, thank you!