envycontrol VS displaylink-rpm

You're probably looking for envycontrol ... it will allow you to switch back and forth between integrated/hybrid/dedicated-only graphics as needed. I used this on my 2023 Legion Slim 5 and it made a huge difference in power consumption. Now I only enable dedicated if I need it for something specific, which is rare for me. Computer generally sips between 16w-20w doing basic browsing tasks, with no other optimizations performed (this is on Fedora Silverblue)

Install EnvyControl, which is a useful package that can offload applications to the integrated GPU and turn off the dedicated Nvidia GPU. This will add a few hours at least to your battery life. Distro-specific instructions: https://github.com/bayasdev/envycontrol

Check out this video. https://youtu.be/Pn2iUgW3l6w . It's how I setup my graphics card. You could also use envy control https://github.com/bayasdev/envycontrol.

Now, it's much easier to enable the Fusion repository and Envycontrol makes it as easy as Ubuntu to switch GPUs! I also use DisplayLink for additional monitors and there is now a 3rd party rpm for that.

use envycontrol

I thus played a bit with https://github.com/bayasdev/envycontrol which is listed on the archwiiki, the problem is that now, even when selecting the "nvidia" mode and even when going back to "discret graphics" in the bios I'm encountering bugs I didn't have before, mainly SDDM being really zoomed, i3 borders being HUGE (while the rest is normal, I didn't change my config so it's likely not a DPI problem there), glitches when I first login with polybar duplicating itself and the wallpaper being broken, requiring to refresh i3 to have those 2 things fixes, picom animations are also super glitchy.

For the driver, I download this rpm and installed it. While it froze at the end, after a reboot, it worked.

Now, it's much easier to enable the Fusion repository and Envycontrol makes it as easy as Ubuntu to switch GPUs! I also use DisplayLink for additional monitors and there is now a 3rd party rpm for that.

Doing a quick search for "displaylink Fedora" on brave. These are the first 2 results and look pretty simple:

https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm

https://kcore.org/2023/01/01/installing-evdi-fedora37/ (should work on the latest Fedora 38)

Hope you next time do some research before making any statement. https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm

Appears to be broken on 6.2.x kernels (github issue).

AFAIK this driver is not completely open source. But I assume this issue was created by you? Then I'm afraid you can't do any more besides going back to a 6.1.x kernel.

I'm losing wifi and all animations after installing the evdi display link drivers from the following link: https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm/releases

DisplayLink - you will need to get the DisplayLink RPM out-of-kernel driver; if you want to continue using SecureBoot then you'll need to enroll a MOK and get that all set up as part of the build. More details over there.

If you used another method, especially if you did this setup manually, consider building and installing the source rpm here instead: https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm