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Nvidia Prime is a way of adding hybrid graphics support to your computer. Nvidia Prime allows the user to switch between NVIDIA (Performance Mode) and Intel (Power Saving Mode) graphics from the NVIDIA Settings utility.

Nvidia Prime is a way of adding hybrid graphics support to your computer. Nvidia Prime allows the user to switch between NVIDIA (Performance Mode) and Intel (Power Saving Mode) graphics from the NVIDIA Settings utility.

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How NVIDIA On-Demand option works in NVIDIA X Server Settings?

I have installed Nvidia proprietary driver on Ubuntu 19.10. In the Prime Profiles section, there are three options: * NVIDIA (Performance Mode) * NVIDIA On-Demand * Intel (Power Saving Mode) First and last options are quite obvious, But I don't…
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How am I supposed to use nvidia-prime?

I have an acer laptop with these GPUs: - GPU0: Intel HD Graphics 4000 (M) (obviously integrated) - GPU1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M I uninstalled all nvidia-drivers because I was experiencing a lot of bugs and I read here and there that they are not…
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Can't switch anymore from Intel to NVIDIA GPU

[Ubuntu 14.04 64bit] After switching between Intel / NVIDIA graphics and the different NVIDIA drivers I am now suddenly stuck with the Intel GPU. It used to be no problem at all switching between the two - I cannot say for sure what is suddenly…
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Nvidia driver installs but does not load on ubuntu 18.04

Nvidia driver 384 ran well on Ubuntu 17.04 and 17.10. I switched to Ubuntu 18.04 (clean fresh install) and installed nvidia-driver-396 following this great answer Then I installed cuda toolkit 9.2 using .run file. It failed to install with and…
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How to get nvidia-persistenced daemon to work properly?

I have some graphical issues on login when I'm using the intel gpu. I checked the boot logs and it shows that the nvidia persistence service failed to load on the intel gpu. After running systemctl status nvidia-persistenced.service I found that…
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How can I switch back to Nvidia card from Intel with Nvidia-prime

So I updated to Ubuntu 14.04 and found that the primusrun command no longer works, so ditched bumblebee in favour of nvidia-prime. This lets you switch video card from nvidia-settings rather than running through the command line (I prefer the old…
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How to configure igpu for xserver and nvidia gpu for cuda?

Ubuntu 16.04 Output of uname -a: Linux HOST 4.4.0-22-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 12 22:03:46 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Desktop grade: CPU: Intel GPU: Nvidia with 361.42 What I want: the intel GPU shall run the xserver and my…
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Nvidia-331 Nvidia-Settings Prime Profile Switching Error

I'm having an issue with my nvidia-331 driver. I can't seem to switch between Intel and Nvida via nvidia-settings. The option is there but when I click 'nvidia' a blank error window pops up. It's very weird because I've been using the Ubuntu daily…
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What is the use of nvidia-prime?

Yesterday, I was very excited about initial support for optimus using nvidia-prime package on Ubuntu 13.10. It seemed to be the way to replace my bumblebee + hybrid-screenclone configuration, since there is no patch available for the intel video…
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Cannot switch from Intel to Nvidia in Ubuntu 16.04 (Nvidia Prime)

I cannot switch from my Intel GPU to my Nvidia GPU on Ubuntu 16.04. I get no error messages or other problems, it just doesn't switch. Other similar questions here have not solved my problem. Here are the details: HP Envy dv7 7390eb laptop with…
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Getting hybrid graphics to work nvidia-prime GT650M

I recently made the switch to Ubuntu. Everything on my laptop works fine except my hybrid graphics card. It is Intel graphics combined with Nvidia GeForce GT650M. I tried Bumblebee, but primusrun doesn't work (segmentation fault, core dumped) and…
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How to use CUDA with NVIDIA Prime

I've found a half a dozen posts on this all over the web, but none of them really answer the question. I want to set up my nvidia GPU to only do computations, not drive the display. But when I switch to using the Intel GPU in the nvidia-prime…
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How to install nVidia drivers with Bumblebee on Ubuntu 14.04

As the title, how can I correctly setup nvidia-optimus technology on Ubuntu?
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NVIDIA On-Demand: run specific applications on dGPU

I enabled the new "NVIDIA On-Demand" option in the NVIDIA X Server Settings. Now everything uses the iGPU by default, which should be better for battery life (at least, that's what I'm hoping for). I'd like some applications (like Blender, for…
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Nvidia drivers - Unable to check "Force full composition pipeline"

I read that in order to avoid screen tearing I should enable the option "Force full composition pipeline" on nvidia settings[¹]. However that option doesn't seem to be available in my system. I thought nvidia-settings might have been held back but…
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