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<span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">nvidia/intel, and an nvidia chip that doesn't see any connected monitors. I</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">> assume you've looked down the primus road?</span>
<div><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Yes. I've looked, just have not tried installing primus yet. Also, I looked at </span>using </div><div>bumblebee. Going to try disabling in BIOS first, then I'll try primus then bumblebee.</div><div>In BIOS I can change graphics to discrete instead of hybrid. I'll test each of them.</div><div>Figured I would send a message to list first, before looking at other roads. I though</div><div>perhaps maybe a config option in xorg.conf needed to be tweaked.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, just to clarify where you say "connected monitors", I don't have any external</div><div>monitors attached to the P70 laptop, currently just using the laptop display.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, I'm not really concerned about battery at the moment. As this laptop is 90-100%</div><div>always connected to AC power source.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Doug</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 9:35 AM John Hodrien <<a href="mailto:J.H.Hodrien@leeds.ac.uk">J.H.Hodrien@leeds.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, doug schmidt wrote:<br>
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> Hi,Just following up. Does anyone have any ideas of what I can try to get x/gnome working under nvidia drivers?<br>
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nvidia/intel, and an nvidia chip that doesn't see any connected monitors. I<br>
assume you've looked down the primus road?<br>
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<a href="https://elrepo.org/tiki/primus" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://elrepo.org/tiki/primus</a><br>
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Otherwise, if you get nowhere there, have you considered disabling the Intel<br>
card in the BIOS (if possible) which may make it appear as a simple nvidia<br>
only machine, and it should just work, at the cost of worse battery life.<br>
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jh<br>
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