Help with nVidia card

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Hello, I have 2 video cards: intel (integrated) and nVidia, I installed the nVidia driver but it says I’m not using it, then I made a xorg.conf and .xinitrc files and I get a black screen, I tried to use the arch configuration steps ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus ) …I boot in advance boot and recover the system … and there is other thing I don’t understand:

03:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Lenovo GeForce 820M
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 61
        Memory at c2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
        Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256]
        Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32]
        I/O ports at 3000 [size=128]
        Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
        Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
        Kernel driver in use: nouveau
        Kernel modules: nouveau

More info:


00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)
03:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] (rev a1)


00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device 380d
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 62
        Memory at c3000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256]
        I/O ports at 6000 [size=64]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
        Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

My nvidia card has 2gb not 256M. Pleas help.

I want to use my nVidia card with the proprietary driver :c[/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size]

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Try to disable the Intel Card in Bios.
If can not do this, your PC is only working with bumblebee, so remove the Nvidia-Driver and delete the xorg.conf and any thing else, you have done to get your Graphics working.

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Bumblebee

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Hi, I deleted everything when I boot in “advance boot” and it works again, in Arch I didn’t install Bumblebee, but of course openSuse is different, is there some guide to make the nvidia card work only with configuration files?

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Is this an Optimus laptop or is this just a Desktop PC that has an Intel GPU? You should only use Bumblebee if the hardware is Optimus. If Desktop you should be able to turn the Intel GPU off in the BIOS. If Optimus then you should use Bumblebee since the GPUs are tied together in the hardware

Also you did not say how you installed the NVIDIA driver.

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I installed the nVidia driver from the repo in yast (I added the repo). I have a laptop with 2 GPU but I cant disable intel card, I have installed bumblebee this morning and apparently it works, I can see the spheres when run optirun glxspheres in 90 fps and it said that it uses my nvidia card, but when I run lspci to see the nvidia card info, it doesn’t show the info of my first post, instead it shows a message: “!!! Unknown header type 7f”, is this ok?

I blacklisted Nouveau and downloaded nvidia-bumblebee (this morning)

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Well Optimus systems are “different” You can not expect them to work the same as non-Optimus systems

It is a hardware level marriage of the two GPU’s the NVIDA GPU actually renders through the Intel GPU

If it works don’t look too close you may go blind :stuck_out_tongue: Just deem yourself lucky and let it go at that.

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Well I am happy now, it is time for starting to do my work, thank you for your time lol!