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Conder

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Registered: 2016-07-28

Posts: 3

[Solved] Intel and NVIDIA Graphics

Hello.

I have laptop with Intel Core i5 6200U (Intel Graphics 520) and NVIDIA GeForce 940M. When I was using Ubuntu and installed proprietary driver, it installed also "Nvidia X Server Settings" in which I was able to switch between integrated and dedicated GPU. How I can do this on Arch? Atm I have installed Intel graphics drivers (xf86-video-intel & mesa-libgl) and everything is OK. However when I installed nvidia, nvidia-libgl and nvidia-settings and then ran nvidia-xconfig, it generated new X config and after reboot I couldnt start X and I had to restore old X config. Can someone help please how to do it correctly? Thanks for help.

//okay, bumblebee solved this. thx

Last edited by Conder (2016-09-01 12:33:11)

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

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Re: [Solved] Intel and NVIDIA Graphics

You probably want to search for bumblebee. And the term 'optimus' for background information.

Of course, if you'd bothered to take a look at the nvidia wiki page you would already know that

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mazhar

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From: Sanandaj

Registered: 2016-07-12

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Re: [Solved] Intel and NVIDIA Graphics

yeah, i had the same confusion. it totally works well now with bumblebee

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