Changed gpu from discrete to on-demand, now booting into tty.

[Syliyth]

Issue Description

Title says most of it, I'm using a 3070 and I can confirm that the gpu works fine.

Steps to Reproduce

Change PRIME gpu management to Discrete, then change it back to On-Demand.

On what version of Vanilla OS this happens?

Vanilla OS 2 Orchid

Additional Information

There have been some odditys related to gpu/ displays with vanilla os, since I have 2 monitors, sometimes it changes the default refresh rate back to 60 from 144 after a restart. And pretty consistently I need to change the orientation and main monitor back to what I prefer.

[Syliyth]

Just in case anyone needs a fix for this, running "pkexec", putting in your user password then "prime-switch nvidia" fixed the issue.

[jardon]

what is your nvidia driver version?

[Syliyth]

sorry about the late reply, NVIDIA Server settings says the driver version is 535.183.06.

[jardon]

it seems odd to me that running prime-switch without pkexec would do anything let alone do something destructive. so in your case, it booted to a black screen and you had to swap to a tty or did it boot straight to a tty?

i dont know for sure, but some of the other smaller issues that you have may be resolved with a newer driver release. vanilla does release an nvidia-exp image that runs a newer driver from the nvidia repos, but that is considered unsupported if i recall correctly (i still use it personally and it works great).

but for this bug report, i can try to replicate the issue and see what i can figure out

[Syliyth]

Sorry, just looking back and I missed the first question, it booted into a black screen then I had to swap to TTY. Ill see if I can properly replicate and then document the exact process I need to go through. The only issue is that Vanilla is my daily driver and I work from home so ill need to wait until the end of the day when I have some time.

[Syliyth]

Alright, so these are the exact steps, after switching to on demand(I made sure to check and their weren't any issue with the switch that I could tell), I restart using the prompt provided. Then after booting into the OS, its a blank screen, but I can type,(commands don't do anything). I do Ctrl+Alt+F6 to get into the TTY then sign into my Vanilla OS account. After that, just pkexec and prime-switch nvidia and another reboot gets me back to normal.

[tompeace]

Got this exact same issue, which then led to me experiencing this other issue #58

[Syliyth]

Just to keep the information flowing, I was messing with the Nvidia-exp image and I was able to change the gpu to on demand without issue. However the Nvidia-exp image has its own issues like apps not using the gpu at all or missing Nvidia-settings so I wouldn't consider this a fix. I also tried the dev branch of this image but that just booted to intramfs terminal, so not doing that again.