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carnage

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Registered: 2018-04-25

Posts: 1

Nvidia Quadro m12200m recommendation?

Hey all,

I ran into a few  questions during my first install of arch. After the nvidia drivers were installed I rebooted my machine and when I launched the KFCE4 desktop the machine froze. I remedied this by enabling my bios to be discreet graphics not hybrid.
Prior to installing arch I had read that my laptop, Lenovo P51, had some early problems with battery drainage as a result of the discreet GPU. I understand bumblebee is supposed to fix this.

My question is, does bumblebee allow me to switch the bios back to hybrid graphics and succesfully boot into the gui
or
would it be better to delete the nvidia drivers, pacman the intel drivers, turn hybrid back on and then proceed.?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,113

Re: Nvidia Quadro m12200m recommendation?

Welcome to the arch linux forums carnage.  How did you install the nvidia drivers?  Bumblebee is designed for power saving by only running designated programs on the dedicated GPU.
If it will work on your system can only be determined by testing.