NVIDIA Optimus: A ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕗𝕪 Guide

NVIDIA Optimus setup tends to be one of those harder things to setup on your Linux system; Hopefully this guide can help!

0:00 Intro
0:11 But what is Optimus?
1:04 Prerequisites
1:52 Envycontrol: An Optimus Script
2:56 Manual setup: Using NVIDIA Only
3:13 Finding your PCI Bus
4:07 Configuring Xorg
4:50 Modprobe configuration
5:03 Display manager/Xinit
5:15 Editing .xinitrc
5:28 Note on Display/Login managers (for DEs)
6:01 Testing the NVIDIA Configuration
6:14 The glxinfo command
6:32 We're running NVIDIA!
6:44 Manual setup: Integrated only
7:06 Cleaning up NVIDIA configuration
7:41 Blacklisting the NVIDIA drivers
8:07 Disabling the NVIDIA card completely with Udev
8:44 Time to reboot!
8:53 We're running Integrated!
9:01 ...and the NVIDIA card is gone!
9:22 Manual setup: Hybrid system
9:34 Using nvidia-prime on Arch Linux
9:57 ...This example doesn't work, we haven't rebooted yet!
10:12 Deleting all the previous config files
10:44 We're running Hybrid!
10:50 Examples with prime-run
11:14 Note on prime-run
11:38 Closing remarks
11:45 Sometimes people want more...
12:02 Even Envycontrol isn't perfect!
12:27 Conclusion
12:40 Outro
12:47 End cards

Wiki article: https://comfy.guide/client/nvidia

NVIDIA driver and Xrandr commands:
Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install nvidia-driver firmware-misc-nonfree x11-xserver-utils
Fedora: sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xrandr

Envycontrol: https://github.com/geminis3/envycontrol

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