Can somebody walk me safely through that process? I’m afraid to sit in front of a black screen … 
. Yes, I read some help/youtube/reddit-stuff/manuals but I’m not sure if I fully grasp everything.
I have a XPS Dell Laptop with 2 graph cards and I would like to use my GeForce RTX 4060. I identified and loaded the driver (595.99.02 …) and the nvidia repository is added (myrlyn). How to I switch now to this graph card?
Hi henry_1
To start with please open a terminal and post the output of the following ocmmands
inxi -Gaz
zypper se -si nvidia
Which desktop are you using? Both KDE Plasma and GNOME can launch applications using the discrete NVIDIA GPU, and switcherooctl can also be used to launch applications on a specific GPU.
great. here the two commands
henry@XPS-Laptop:~> inxi -Gaz
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Dell driver: i915
v: kernel alternate: xe arch: Xe process: Intel 7 (10nm) built: 2022+ ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:a7a0 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA AD107M [GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile] vendor: Dell
driver: nvidia v: 595.99.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
non-free: 550-6xx.xx+ status: current (as of 2026-07) arch: Lovelace
code: AD1xx process: TSMC n4 (5nm) built: 2022+ bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:28a0 class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-6:2 chip-ID: 0bda:5559
class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: vesa
alternate: fbdev,intel dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3456x2160 s-dpi: 196 s-size: 447x279mm (17.60x10.98")
s-diag: 527mm (20.75")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Samsung 0x414d built: 2020 res: mode: 3456x2160
hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 261 gamma: 1.2 size: 336x210mm (13.23x8.27")
diag: 396mm (15.6") ratio: 16:10 modes: 3456x2160
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0
drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: iris gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11:
drv: iris inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.3.3 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Xe Graphics (RPL-P)
device-ID: 8086:a7a0 memory: 15.14 GiB unified: yes
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 layers: 2 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU driver: nvidia v: 595.99.02
device-ID: 10de:28a0 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-smi wl: wayland-info
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
and
henry@XPS-Laptop:~> zypper se -si nvidia
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
---+-------------------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------+--------+----------------
i | kernel-firmware-nvidia | package | 20250516-160000.2.2 | noarch | repo-oss (16.0)
i | libnvidia-cfg | package | 595.99.02-lp160.10.1 | x86_64 | nVidia
i | libnvidia-egl-gbm1 | package | 1.1.3-lp160.10.1 | x86_64 | nVidia
i | libnvidia-egl-wayland1 | package | 1.1.22-lp160.56.1 | x86_64 | nVidia
i | libnvidia-egl-x111 | package | 1.0.5-lp160.24.1 | x86_64 | nVidia
i | libnvidia-gpucomp | package | 595.99.02-lp160.10.1 | x86_64 | nVidia
i | libnvidia-ml | package | 595.99.02-lp160.10.1 | x86_64 | nVidia
i | nvidia-common-G07 | package | 595.99.02-lp160.10.1 | x86_64 | nVidia
i | nvidia-compute-G07 | package | 595.99.02-lp160.10.1 | x86_64 | nVidia
i+ | nvidia-compute-utils-G07 | package | 595.99.02-lp160.10.1 | x86_64 | nVidia
i+ | nvidia-gl-G07 | package | 595.99.02-lp160.10.1 | x86_64 | nVidia
i | nvidia-modprobe | package | 595.99.02-lp160.2.1 | x86_64 | nVidia
i+ | nvidia-open-driver-G07-signed-check | package | 595.99.02-160000.1.1 | noarch | repo-oss (16.0)
i+ | nvidia-open-driver-G07-signed-kmp-default | package | 595.99.02_k6.12.0_160000.37-160000.1.1 | x86_64 | repo-oss (16.0)
i | nvidia-persistenced | package | 595.99.02-lp160.2.1 | x86_64 | nVidia
i | nvidia-userspace-meta-G07 | package | 595.99.02-lp160.32.1 | x86_64 | nVidia
i | nvidia-video-G07 | package | 595.99.02-lp160.10.1
I’m using KDE only
Mod edit to add code tags.
Your setup will only use the Nvidia GPU for Prime Render Offload, Class 302 is “3D” only. By default it’s being used (See the Vulkan output), else use switcherooctl for it to be used, AFAIK there is a Plasma applet for launching(?).
You should not get a black screen on the hardware as there is no output to any screens, only the driver won’t be working…
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