Can Only Boot with Nvidia-All drivers (not repo drivers)

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WOOHOO!!!

This thread explains the problem and here’s the solution

From 570 changelog

Fixed a bug that could cause external displays to become frozen until the next modeset when using PRIME Display Offloading with the NVIDIA dGPU acting as the display offload sink.

but the issue is not fixed at all.

The solution is to create file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf with this content

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "intel"
    MatchDriver "i915"
    Driver "modesetting"
EndSection

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
    Option "PrimaryGPU" "yes"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Now all rendering is performed by NVidia’s dGPU and there is no freezes in glxgears/vkcube, cause reverse PRIME is not needed anymore. Ordinary PRIME (forward PRIME) is used in this setup. Yes, dGPU draws little more power, then Intel’s iGPU. But i’m ready to pay this price to get renderint without freezes. Especially while using AC power source.

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