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Bumblebee

Bumblebee aims to provide support for NVIDIA Optimus laptops for GNU/Linux distributions. Using Bumblebee, you can use your NVIDIA card for rendering graphics which will be displayed using the Intel card.

Install

apt install bumblebee primus
Usage
optirun glxgears -info
primusrun vim
optirun steam
sudo nvim /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "Layout0"
    Option      "AutoAddDevices" "true"
    Option      "AutoAddGPU" "false"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "DiscreteNvidia"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option "ProbeAllGpus" "false"
    Option "NoLogo" "true"
    Option "UseEDID" "true"
    #Option "UseDisplayDevice" "none"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "nvidia"
    Device         "DiscreteNvidia"
EndSection

Bumblebee

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