MicroCenter won’t give me my money back for the laptop with the poisoned GPU (anything with the n word). I’ve followed a couple of dozen tutorials and watched, not surprised, as nothing worked.
Has anyone actually gotten hybrid AMD Ryzen integrated/nvidia discrete graphics to work with anything approaching consistency or sanity? The only solution I’ve found is to run Arch Linux and install the optimus application. But I don’t want to run Arch Linux and Debian/Kali Linux cannot use the aforementioned optimus application. Not that this is an optimus laptop to begin with - that’s a specific brand, isn’t it?
If you’re running any current distribution and driver, the nvidia gpu should already be availyble in offload mode:
https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/495.44/README/primerenderoffload.html
To set the nvidia gpu as primary gpu:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-primary.conf
Section "OutputClass"
Identifier "nvidia"
MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "PrimaryGpu" "yes"
Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "true"
EndSection
Then
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA_Optimus#Display_managers
(check xrandr --listproviders for the correct name instead of modesetting for amd)