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Re: Nvidia Optimus in Debian



On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 14:26 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have an Optimus notebook Acer Aspire V3 773G and using Debian
> testing.
> 
> lspci:
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core
> Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
> 01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK106M [GeForce GTX 760M]
> (rev a1)
> 
> The system is working, for now X is using the Intel chip.
> 
> While I have heard of Bumblebee I want to always use the Nvidia chip.
> It 
> seems Ubuntu can do this (I think they are using something called
> nvidia 
> prime) to switch between the chips.
> 
> Has anyone done this in Debian?

I think this is what you're looking for?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PRIME#Reverse_PRIME

Instructions are for Arch. but I'm guessing it's the same in Debian.


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