Yes I have the same on my laptop from work. It’s a Lenovo with integrated AMD, but also dedicated Nvidia for certain engineering applications that don’t play nice with integrated AMD.
Work doesn’t allow me to install Linux on the thing and some of the applications we use for work don’t run under Linux anyways. But I investigated if it would be possible, so I could decide to go pester IT asking if I could. I researched and found the same answer everywhere, it’s a pain in the ass and nothing but trouble. The main workaround is to completely disable the Nvidia chip, which obviously means not having access to that performance if required.
Would be really nice if this somewhat common use case could just work out of the box.
it is an absolute pain and honestly I wouldn’t waste your time. Wayland stuff you’ll be fine. X11? nope. And yes honestly completely disabling the discrete Nvidia GPU is the best option but depending on the distro that can also be a pain OR if your laptops BIOS ain’t shit (Asus ROG Bios IS shit) you can disable it there. or like on Arch you just pretend the thing doesn’t exist and don’t even bother installing anything for it.
Yeah hybrid laptops are a pain in the ass. don’t do it. just don’t.
Yes I have the same on my laptop from work. It’s a Lenovo with integrated AMD, but also dedicated Nvidia for certain engineering applications that don’t play nice with integrated AMD.
Work doesn’t allow me to install Linux on the thing and some of the applications we use for work don’t run under Linux anyways. But I investigated if it would be possible, so I could decide to go pester IT asking if I could. I researched and found the same answer everywhere, it’s a pain in the ass and nothing but trouble. The main workaround is to completely disable the Nvidia chip, which obviously means not having access to that performance if required.
Would be really nice if this somewhat common use case could just work out of the box.
it is an absolute pain and honestly I wouldn’t waste your time. Wayland stuff you’ll be fine. X11? nope. And yes honestly completely disabling the discrete Nvidia GPU is the best option but depending on the distro that can also be a pain OR if your laptops BIOS ain’t shit (Asus ROG Bios IS shit) you can disable it there. or like on Arch you just pretend the thing doesn’t exist and don’t even bother installing anything for it.
Yeah hybrid laptops are a pain in the ass. don’t do it. just don’t.
Can you not just fully disabled the integrated? (At the cost of higher power usage.)
Most hybrid laptops (AFAIK) have the integrated graphics hard wired to the drive the display, since its always on