Related questions: - can I use this to seamlessly use the nvidia card for single applications / games while continue to run the desktop itself on the intel card the way I can with bumblebee / optirun / primusrun? - does it work with 32bit binares that need the nvidia card? - does it work with steam and steam games? Cheers Mathias Am Freitag, 31. Mai 2019, 09:10:19 CEST schrieb Michal Hlavac:

hi Carson,

thanks for this package. I have 3 questions: 1. Should I remove bumblebee packages before I try suse-prime? 2. Can suse-prime disable nvidia card to obtain better power consumption on battery? 3. Do I need nvidia driver to use suse-prime to disable nvidia card?

thanks, m.

On štvrtok 30. mája 2019 20:03:09 CEST Carson Black wrote:

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Greetings y'all.

Newbies to Linux tend to think it's cumbersome and requires terminal usage. While users with certain hardware setups can often avoid the terminal, this is not the case for users of SUSE Prime with Nvidia Optimus hardware if they desire switching between the dedicated Nvidia and integrated Intel CPU. This applet for KDE Plasma 5 allows you to see what card is active and to switch between them without touching a terminal.

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/KDE:Extra/plasma5-applet-suse-prim e https://github.com/Appadeia/plasma5-applet-suse-prime

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Carson Black

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- can I use this to seamlessly use the nvidia card for single applications / games while continue to run the desktop itself on the intel card the way I can with bumblebee / optirun / primusrun? No.

- does it work with 32bit binares that need the nvidia card? 32-bit apps are working fine.

- does it work with steam and steam games? Yes. Actually even better than bumblebee. Performance improvement for some cases, while I'm haven't noticed any serious difference, other people noted big difference in performance. The main improvement for me: Vulkan — bumblebee doesn't work with Vulkan and its development stopped several years ago, so it would happen [1]. There is some project [2] to support Vulkan in bumblebee way, but it seems it stuck with coping overhead.

[1] https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/769 [2] https://github.com/felixdoerre/primus_vk -- Kind regards, Mykola Krachkovsky -- Найкращі побажання, Микола Крачковський

W dniu 31.05.2019 o 09:10, Michal Hlavac pisze:

1. Should I remove bumblebee packages before I try suse-prime?

No. Disabling bumblebee daemon should be enough.

2. Can suse-prime disable nvidia card to obtain better power consumption on battery?

Probably yes. Keep in mind that to change between nvidia and integrated card you need to logout to restart Xorg.

3. Do I need nvidia driver to use suse-prime to disable nvidia card?

That's an odd question. As far as I know you don't need any nvidia driver to disable nvidia card. That's handled by bbswitch.