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QuadRadical

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Registered: 2022-06-10

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[SOLVED] nvidia-open optimus manager

Hello, this is my first post, so please tell me if i do anything wrong. I am looking for an optimus-manager alternative as it does not seem to work with nvidia-open (Nvidia open gpu kernel modules), i can provide the error if necessary. Preferably thid alternative would also be compatable with wayland. Any way to get to hybrid mode will do. Thank you.

Last edited by QuadRadical (2022-07-01 14:22:24)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia-open optimus manager

Welcome to the boards

nvidia-open still just has the kernel module "nvidia" and from the perspective of optimus-manager there should be no differences in handling. One major requirement for nvidia-open is that you have to have a Turing GPU and newer if you don't have that you can forget it out right. "Wayland alternative" makes no sense in this context, as the entire point of optimus manager is to provide adjusted Xorg configs, and there's no such thing as "Wayland" as there is a "Xorg". So this would have to be implemented properly for the distinct compositors that exist, which afaik has not really happened yet in any capacity.

If you actually want to look at why optimus manager fails, post the error you get in code tags. Also note that if you actually have a GPU that is new enough to really use nvidia-open there's no good reason to use optimus manager in the first place, since you can just rely on PRIME offloading/power saving as described in: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME# … er_offload

Last edited by V1del (2022-07-01 08:35:41)

QuadRadical

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia-open optimus manager

I believe i do have a Turing+ GPU, and i would like to be on hybrid anyway, so is that the default? Thank you for your response :-)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia-open optimus manager

hybrid is the default if you do not opt for optimus manager in the first place. If you configure PRIME and the power management as stated in my link you should gain all of the power saving benefits and you can invoke the nvidia GPU on demand with the prime-run script

QuadRadical

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia-open optimus manager

Thank you very much!