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shayan

Member

From: Edmonton

Registered: 2011-07-26

Posts: 9

nvidia driver installed, can't install intel driver

Hi,
I have a w520 laptop with nvidia optimus.

Before installing  Linux, I disabled optimus and set graphics to discrete graphics in bios.
Now I want to install intel graphics too and use it from time to time and perhaps use optimus with bumblebee later. The problem is that I cannot install the intel driver.
When I run
pacman -Sy xf86-video-intel
pacman tries to install libgl package as a dependency which is in conflict with nvidia-utils and asks for removing it.
Any ideas what to do? I guess nvidia card will not work without this package. Is there any way to have both of them. (I am not shooting for optimus yet, I just want to make them work separately, the next step is to install bumblebee)

Jodell

Member

Registered: 2009-10-09

Posts: 285

Re: nvidia driver installed, can't install intel driver

The intel driver and the nvidia driver conflicts. As a fellow owner of an optimus laptop, I highly recommend bumblebee.

shayan

Member

From: Edmonton

Registered: 2011-07-26

Posts: 9

Re: nvidia driver installed, can't install intel driver

In order to install bumblebee, should I remove the nvidia-utils package first?

framas

Member

Registered: 2009-07-24

Posts: 50

Re: nvidia driver installed, can't install intel driver

In order to install bumblebee, should I remove the nvidia-utils package first?

Replace it with nvidia-utils-bumblebee from aur.

shayan

Member

From: Edmonton

Registered: 2011-07-26

Posts: 9

Re: nvidia driver installed, can't install intel driver

The problem is lots of package are dependent on it ( including gnome3) and I cannot remove all of them.

ngoonee

Forum Fellow

From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: nvidia driver installed, can't install intel driver

The problem is lots of package are dependent on it ( including gnome3) and I cannot remove all of them.

nvidia-utils-bumblebee provides nvidia-utils, so you can remove nvidia-utils ignoring dependencies (read pacman's man page).

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