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I have a nVidia GTX660 running the latest drivers via the Ubuntu additional hardware tab. As such, I noticed I have been having weird issues when playing graphic intensive games and I found that people with my setup have an issue with the integrated graphics and they said they noticed better performance after 'blacklisting' them.

My question: How can I blacklist the i915 Intel integrated graphics driver? And would this cause any problems?

Thank you.

Mike Uresti
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Logout your session, open a tty.

Stop the graphic session service. On Ubuntu is lightdm, Gnome is gdm, Mint is mdn. No need to type what’s after the # it's just a comment.

sudo service stop lightdm  #Change service accordingly
sudo apt-get purge nvidia* bumblebee primus #Delete all nvidia installed libs
sudo apt-get autoremove    #Delete unneeded packages
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-346 nvidia-settings ppa-purge #Install new nvidia driver

Reboot your machine, if everything is ok login open 'NVIDIA Settings' a choose which GPU you prefer. Unfortunately bumblebee isn't working with this driver version or I'm still to find a way to make it work. In your case it's what you've asked only one GPU will be activated.

If no graphic session is started you'll have to remove the driver.

sudo ppa-purge ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-346

Reboot again, nouveau will take over, reinstall previous drivers.

perdigueiro
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