Enable NVIDIA PRIME's selector on Arch Linux

prime-select PKGBUILD for Arch Linux

# Maintainer: Dennis E. Mungai <dmngaie@gmail.com>
pkgname=nvidia-prime
pkgver=0.7
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime."
url="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-prime"
arch=('x86_64' 'i686')
license=('GPLv3')
depends=('lightdm' 'bbswitch' 'python' 'bash')
optdepends=('nvidia' 'lightdm-gtk3-greeter')
makedepends=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
#install='nvidia-prime.install'
source=("https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/${pkgname}_${pkgver}.tar.gz")
sha256sums=('SKIP')

package() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}"

  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}"/usr/{bin,lib/systemd/system}
  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/{doc/nvidia-prime,nvidia-prime,lightdm/lightdm.conf.d}

  #Install PRIME
  install -m755 $srcdir/nvidia-prime/get-quirk-options $pkgdir/usr/bin/get-quirk-options
  install -m755 $srcdir/nvidia-prime/prime-offload $pkgdir/usr/bin/prime-offload
  install -m755 $srcdir/nvidia-prime/prime-select $pkgdir/usr/bin/prime-select
  install -m755 $srcdir/nvidia-prime/prime-supported $pkgdir/usr/bin/prime-supported
  install -m755 $srcdir/nvidia-prime/prime-switch $pkgdir/usr/bin/prime-switch

  #Add nvidia-prime-quirks
  install -m755 $srcdir/nvidia-prime/prime-quirks $pkgdir/usr/share/nvidia-prime/prime-quirks

  #Add systemD service
  install -m644 $srcdir/nvidia-prime/debian/nvidia-prime.service $pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-prime.service

  #Add LightDM
  install -m644 $srcdir/nvidia-prime/90-nvidia.conf $pkgdir/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/90-nvidia.conf

  #Other Information
  install -m644 $srcdir/nvidia-prime/debian/changelog $pkgdir/usr/share/doc/nvidia-prime/changelog.gz
  install -m644 $srcdir/nvidia-prime/debian/copyright $pkgdir/usr/share/doc/nvidia-prime/copyright
}

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Brings functionality similar to NVIDIA PRIME -Selector on Ubuntu to Arch Linux.
Switch GPUs on NVIDIA Optimus-enabled notebooks / systems with an applet.

hi
Thanks for your work, since I'm newbie to install Arch as your script?

would you consider contributing this to AUR? (if it works, haven't tested it yet)

after installing and installing dpkg from aur, returns
$ sudo prime-select nvidia
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/prime-select", line 345, in
switcher = Switcher()
File "/usr/bin/prime-select", line 141, in init
int(not self._supported_architectures
AttributeError: 'dict_values' object has no attribute 'index'
[tyson@T-Killa-PC ~]$ sudo prime-select intel
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/prime-select", line 345, in
switcher = Switcher()
File "/usr/bin/prime-select", line 141, in init
int(not self._supported_architectures
AttributeError: 'dict_values' object has no attribute 'index'

$ sudo prime-switch
/usr/bin/prime-switch: line 22: /usr/bin/gpu-manager: No such file or directory

I have he same issues as tkoham. I am willing to help get this into AUR. If you can work with me to make this work. Package builds fine, Installs fine but does not work. You have the error messages. If you can guide me on troubleshooting this, I can certainly try to get this working. The Problem is that I don't know programming or scripting although have been using Linux for more than 6 Years now.. Please help

I have he same issues as tkoham. I am willing to help get this into AUR. If you can work with me to make this work. Package builds fine, Installs fine but does not work. You have the error messages. If you can guide me on troubleshooting this, I can certainly try to get this working. The Problem is that I don't know programming or scripting although have been using Linux for more than 6 Years now.. Please help

@osgyan this needs to be ported since it uses dpkg for architecture and some other ubuntu specifics.
Things like gpu-manager comes with ubuntu-drivers-common : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-common But I think we can just do a new pkg and fix it ourselves.

@CommanderAlchemy I am more than Happy to help. However I am not very good at packaging. If there is anything which you think I can help with, please let me know.

What happened with this?

Hey,

I can work on this in a day or two. Let's get in touch here (see my email address on my profile).

Regards,

Brainiarc7

By the way, this is @clfarron4 's work, I copied it here as a reminder to contribute this to the AUR.

What is the current status? Do we have an AUR package yet?

Didn't mean to step on anyone's toes, but since it's been quite a while now I just went ahead now and provided a PKGBUILD for Ubuntu's latest version 0.8.4 in the AUR. If anyone wants to take over maintenance there, just let me know!
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-prime/

Will try adding a separate package for gpu-manager.

I've added gpu-manager and u-d-c-gpu-detection from ubuntu-drivers-common to the package directly now
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=nvidia-prime&id=a32421973458e8a5bffde553c8edd36b9486b3ae
Please test the package and let me know if it works!

Gives

prime-select query
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/prime-select", line 401, in <module>
   if not switcher.print_current_alternative():
 File "/usr/bin/prime-select", line 259, in print_current_alternative
   gl_alternatives = self._get_current_gl_alternative()
 File "/usr/bin/prime-select", line 216, in _get_current_gl_alternative
   return self._get_current_alternative(self._gl_switcher, self._gl_switc
her_other)
 File "/usr/bin/prime-select", line 203, in _get_current_alternative
   raw_alternative = switcher.get_current_alternative()
 File "/usr/bin/prime-select", line 83, in get_current_alternative
   c = p.split('\n')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

I wonder if the reason is simply that we are not using the same python version as Ubuntu ...
Ideas anyone?

Ok. Fixed now using python2, seems to be working:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=nvidia-prime

Hello there, i'm also using arch on a Optimus laptop and i've try many solution but none of theme fully work (some applications works fine some other don't). I've installed a ubuntu on a different HDD to test the nvidia-prime proprietary and it works just fine, all applications use the nvidia card. So I'm happy to see that some of you are porting this to arch. But when I test it it doesn't work:
$ sudo prime-select nvidia
Info: the current GL alternatives in use are: [None, None]
Info: the current EGL alternatives in use are: [None, None]
Error: the installed packages do not support PRIME
Error: nvidia mode can't be enable
If anyone have an idea on how to get ride of this I would be really thanksfull!

You can try there https://github.com/wildtruc/nvidia-prime-select
Fork from Fedora-prime to be multi-distros. Works nicely... now. :s