Egpu RTX 3060 how to turn on?

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hello i have trouble with a egpu graphic card , i have install the driver 515

i have list it whith the command mvidia-smi

as here
Mon Oct 17 09:17:44 2022
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 515.65.01 Driver Version: 515.65.01 CUDA Version: 11.7 |
|-------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce … On | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| N/A 51C P8 13W / N/A | 378MiB / 6144MiB | 57% Default |
| | | N/A |
±------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+
| 1 NVIDIA GeForce … Off | 00000000:0B:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 30% 31C P0 32W / 170W | 0MiB / 12288MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
±------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+

±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1602 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 190MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2141 G /usr/bin/kwin_x11 56MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2212 G /usr/bin/plasmashell 41MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2236 G …5/usr/lib/firefox/firefox 84MiB |
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

n vidia setting does not launch how can i turn it on to use it ?

when i boot i have a black screen when the egpu is on.

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lspci | grep NVIDIA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 228e (rev a1)
0b:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate] (rev a1)
0b:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 228e (rev a1)

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switcherooctl
Device: 0
Name: Intel Corporation CometLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics]
Default: yes
Environment: DRI_PRIME=pci-0000_00_02_0

Device: 1
Name: NVIDIA Corporation GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q]
Default: no
Environment: __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1

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is there a way to add the egpu in the xorg.conf file ??

acutally i have that file and i think i can manually load the egup

is it right ?

Section “Module”
Load “modesetting”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Device0”
Driver “nvidia”
BusID “1:0:0”
Option “AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration”
Option “AllowExternalGpus” “True”
EndSection