I’m using a MacBookPro10,1 with an Intel and a Nvidia graphic card. I think both are actively running because when I did this “$lspci -vnnn | perl -lne ‘print if /^\d+:.+(\S+:\S+])/’ | grep VGA”, I got two entries, Intel and Nvidia, with [VGA Controller] appended to both.
How do I temporarily disable Nvidia so that I can use the Intel graphic card to save energy? I’ve checked Bumblebee but that’s a slightly complicated method. The ideal solution would be just typing a few commands manually to disable Nvidia and enable it when needed.
I’ve tried bbswitch only but that did a lot of weird stuff to my system. I tried “blacklist nouveau” too but that messed up my system too.
Arch has a package called acpi_call which can power off the discrete GPU. Does openSUSE have a similar one?
I haven’t found the package called nvidia-prime-alt, instead I found suse-prime. Is this the one you are talking about? In order to install this package I believe I have to install the Nvidia proprietary driver, which conflicts with nouveau? Is there anyway of doing this using nouveau only?
I stand corrected, it’s Welcome - openSUSE Build Service , please read the instructions on this page. IIRC I had this working on TW as well, but I see that the maintainer Bo Simonsen ( bosim ) has only built the package for 42.1 and TW. I wouldn’t think it won’t work since NVIDIA supports this and the way the package works should still work. Mind, you have to install the NVIDIA blob manually ( download at NVIDIA ) since opensuse-community.org does not serve TW packages.
Personally I found out that the Intel in my laptop does as fine as the NVIDIA on nouveau, so I just use the Intel. Another nice side-effect of this is that the fan of the NVIDIA card doesn’t even start.