How to turn off dedicated GPU?

Default everything, GNOME, stable.

Dedicated GPU is staying on now, but used to turn off.

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Please run inxi -Gazy. You didn’t even provided the GPU vendor, model, etc.

Hello,

I used to recommend the use of this options for hybrid graphics. All the links point to the archived forum. The list is in descending order based on the rate of success i noticed over time:

Each has advantages and disadvantages, and on some laptop models/GPU models might fail to provide the desired result, so, there is no 100% guarantee for any of them. An example is Dell XPS 9560

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Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:591b
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] driver: N/A
alternate: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c8d
Device-3: Sunplus Innovation Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus ID: 1-12:4 chip ID: 1bcf:2b95
Display: wayland server: X,Org 1.20.9 compositor: gnome-shell v: 3.36.6
driver: N/A note: display driver n/a - try sudo/root FAILED: intel
display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x2160 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x572mm (40.0x22.5")
s-diag: 1166mm (45.9")
Monitor-1: XWAYLAND0 res: 3840x2160 hz: 60 dpi: 279
size: 350x190mm (13.8x7.5") diag: 398mm (15.7")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.7
direct render: Yes

I guess in that case you can use bbswitch

This is so inconsistent! bbswithc was working for months, then it wasn’t working, and right now it’s working again! These sorts of bugs are so hard to fix , when the things aren’t the same from time to time.