My old, solid, LenovoZ570 has two graphic cards; intel and nvidia (Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 3000 Graphics Processor 2: NVD9, also see my setting, enclosed) and an external monitor, Samsung SMBx2440 (1920x1080).
Probably i have been using only intel, since the beginning.
Would you suggest to use both graphic cards?
Any step by step description to attain such result?
Would it be rather advisable to exclude intel and base the entire system on nvidia?
System settings also display a vga-1 monitor. What is it?
I won’t game on my machine
thank you
p.
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Operating System: openSUSE Leap 16.0
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.16.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.12.0-160000.33-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3-2310M CPU @ 2.10GHz
Memory: 6 GiB of RAM (5,7 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 3000
Graphics Processor 2: NVD9
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 10245DG
System Version: Ideapad Z570
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This is a Fermi card and only supported by the nouveau driver on Leap 16.0. So no need to try to install any Nvidia driver as there is none available. On Tumbleweed there is still the G04 aka v390 driver series available, but not worth the effort for such an old card.
To get a better information about your GPU model, you can show the results of inxi -GSaz
@xpol Hi, not a Plasma user, but with Hyprland one can set the DRM device on older optimus setups, if you look at the output from lsgpu it will show the drm devices, then you can set an environment variable, eg;
KWIN_DRM_DEVICES="/dev/dri/card1:/dev/dri/card0"
This will utilize either the Intel or NV device for required tasks, eg vulkan, but you will need to test out and see what works best for your needs.
Here enclosed the lsgpu command output.
Entering lspci -k i get that both graphic card have been recognized (enclosed)
Are they both in use?
How should the env variable KWIN_DRM_DEVICES be set?
Where should it be placed?
thank you
p.
I have found that
/etc/sysconfig/language:INSTALLED_LANGUAGES=“”
Should Yast be used to assign a language?
I am using the zsh, but i could not find that variable in its configuration file.
All variables are set to it_IT.UTF-8
LC_ALL is the only unassigned one.
The command sudo localectl set-locale LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 has not changed any of them, LC_ALL= still unassigned.
@xpol You will need advice from a Plasma user, but I suspect it’s a file down in ~/.config directory.
You also likely need to add your user to the render group, once done logout/login to make the change.
Your still on X11, I don’t use it, all my systems run wayland.
You should see a change to nouveau, rather than modesetting for the inxi “Display” output, you don’t have vulkan-tools you likely need libvulkan_nouveau installed as well.
Likely that made sense at the time, the GF119M was likely twice as fast as the Sandybridge integrated on some graphics apps. Also note that this is a dual VGA system, not a hybrid system, so there might be some option to enable one or the other in the BIOS.
@xpol you may install glmark2 and check for yourself.
Maybe you also have to install and enable switcheroo-control( see Install_and_Enable_Switcheroo_Control ).
If that works as expected you may launch graphics intensive applications with switcherooctl <command>