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khyrthy

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Registered: 2021-04-24

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Hybrid Deprecated GPUs

Hi everyone,

I am new to Archlinux OSes and I am wondering how could I get my Hybrid GPUs from my Msi cx61 2PC (Intel HD 4600 (not sure) and NVIDIA GeForce 820M (Fermi arch)) work.
The output of

lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"

printed the nouveau driver.
After that, I installed AUR packages

nvidia-390xx nvidia390xx-utils

, and now, it returns the Nvidia Legacy driver. (My GPU doesn't supports the last driver which is the 460)

The problem is that applications/games like Minecraft, Lutris or Steam only use the integrated Intel HD. (I installed Steam with flatpak, couldn't install it with pacman/yay for driver compatibility reason)
So I tried installing and launching

nvidia-390xx-settings

, but I get an error :

ERROR: Unable to find display on any available system

I would like to use the Intel HD for the desktop and the NVIDIA card for the games or GPU-accelerated apps...

Thanks for your answers!

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Hybrid Deprecated GPUs

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus

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khyrthy

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Re: Hybrid Deprecated GPUs

Yes, but this solution doesn't makes an hybrid. I don't wanna disable NVIDIA or Intel GPU...

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Hybrid Deprecated GPUs

Did you even read the link? The first section describes several ways of using the discrete GPU for individual applications.

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khyrthy

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Re: Hybrid Deprecated GPUs

Are you talking about this section ?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … phics_only ?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Hybrid Deprecated GPUs

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … le_methods ← the third bullet point.

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khyrthy

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Re: Hybrid Deprecated GPUs

And... I guess I can't use it with Wayland?

Last edited by khyrthy (2021-04-24 19:00:53)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Hybrid Deprecated GPUs

Rumour has it that those NVIDIA bastards are finally starting to accommodate the GBM API. Check Phoronix.

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progandy

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Re: Hybrid Deprecated GPUs

Rumour has it that those NVIDIA bastards are finally starting to accommodate the GBM API. Check Phoronix.

That will probably not come to the legacy driver, so there is nothing to do except using x11 or  hoping that the open source nouveau driver will get better.
Here is the power management status for Fermi / NVC0: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/PowerManagement.html

Last edited by progandy (2021-04-24 19:25:15)

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khyrthy

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Re: Hybrid Deprecated GPUs

Hey,
I finally made it run perfectly using bumblebee.
Everything seems to work pretty fine (even on Wayland, excepting the nvidia-settings that doesn't detect any monitor)

I'm trying now to make steam and lutris run with optirun.