optimus-manager VS nvidia-all

See the discussion on Github at https://github.com/Askannz/optimus-manager/issues/543

Read: NVIDIA Optimus AND optimus-manager documentation thoroughly.

Use Nvidia to render everything. You can easily do this with programs such as Optimus Manager or Envycontrol (I recommend the latter if you're on wayland). You can set it so that when you're on charger, laptop boots with the Nvidia (dedicated) mode and when you're on battery it boots with integrated mode (if you do this, read the wiki about Nvidia as you're going to possibly experience nvidia-related issues).

I have installed optimus-manager few hours back(I'm in NVIDIA propitiatory). Read this https://github.com/Askannz/optimus-manager/wiki/A-guide--to-power-management-options and came to understand that manual configuration is necessary for turning off the nvidia card completely. Tried : Configuration 1 : dynamic power management inside the NVIDIA driver (Runtime D3 power management) Configuration 4 : acpi_call. But none is completely turning off the NVIDIA card even though I ran optimus-manager --switch integrated (applicable to only config 4).

What you meant was optimus-manager program and you should look at https://github.com/Askannz/optimus-manager for instructions with that method of using Nvidia Optimus, but you should also look at instructions for other methods for Nvidia Optimus too, especially PRIME-Render Offload one, because you can find important things for power management at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME#PCI-Express\_Runtime\_D3\_(RTD3)\_Power\_Management , because you have a Turing GPU and Tiger Lake CPU, and method for Nvidia Optimus you mentioned and want to use is best supported with gdm, sddm and lightdm display managers and you may want to look at other Nvidia Optimus methods.

-Refer to this: https://github.com/Askannz/optimus-manager for help with other display managers or issues

Just asking because I wanted to give some advice and it would be different between a desktop and laptop. There are some options to manager graphics through a gui like optimus manager. PopOS also comes with some extensions to manage it out of the box. You can also look at using Lutris for gaming, you can use it to make every game launch with your discrete gpu by default.

Hello, I am a newbie to Intel-nvidia-hybrid laptop. My issue is that I cannot use Nvidia dGPU for my favourite apps. I have tried Optimus Manager and Envycontrol but both of them breaks my system. I am using HP Envy laptop with Nvidia gtx 1650 ti maxq. Thank you!

- rollback the driver using github.com/Frogging-Family/nvidia-all and get rev530.41.03-250.

The TKG DKMS package already has an open issue, and it seems like there's a patch for it. Looks like you'll need to manually patch it, though.

Have a look at nvidia-all

Stay with Endeavour. Install the DKMS Nvidia drivers from https://github.com/frogging-family/nvidia-all

git clone https://github.com/frogging-family/nvidia-all cd nvidia-all makepkg -si

If the installer detects no nvidia GPU then it wont install the driver, but you could just reinstall the system and keep your /home directory (your games and stuff) or you install the driver beforehand via nvidia-all aio installer and follow nvidia do's and don'ts from the archwiki. But be warned gamemode is laggy with nvidia (desktop big picture is fine), because valve hasn't enabled video acceleration for nvidia in gamemode yet.

Or you could just clone https://github.com/frogging-family/nvidia-all and run makepkg -si from the directory. Choose your wanted driver branch and choose non-open and WITH dkms when prompted. That will allow you to also use custom kernels (DKMS I mean)

But mainly I use Frogging Family's github for my kernels and Nvidia drivers. https://github.com/Frogging-Family/nvidia-all Couple commands, a reboot and I'm up for gaming again. Mainly I use this github for more up to date drivers. And you can test the opensource part or vulkan drivers. Vulkan and the normal DKMS driver works fine for me.