Hybrid GPU configuration problem (Intel / NVIDIA)

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Hi, I have a laptop with a hybrid GPU configuration (Intel / NVIDIA). The dedicated card is Geforce M330. Nvidia no longer supports drivers for this card. I have patches NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.108-patched-kernel-5.17.run drivers installed. How do I switch between cards? If this is not possible, how to start a linux session on a dedicated card? I have Manjaro Xfce 21.3.2 installed. Thank you for your help.

Sorry for the mistakes. I do not know English very well. !

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[maciek@maciek-r580r590 ~]$ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
System:
  Kernel: 5.18.10-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.18-x86_64
    root=UUID=59a0007c-1f75-4ba1-8006-232fa170e177 rw quiet
    resume=UUID=3464b826-623e-412f-bd2a-504365f5cff9 udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.16.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
    v: 4.16.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: SAMSUNG product: R580/R590 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 9 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: SAMSUNG model: R580/R590 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Phoenix
    v: 08JB.M032.20100331.hkk date: 03/31/2010
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 33.3 Wh (78.9%) condition: 42.2/48.8 Wh (86.4%)
    volts: 11.1 min: 11.1 model: SAMSUNG Electronics type: Li-ion serial: N/A
    status: N/A
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M215 serial: <filter>
    charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.63 GiB used: 1.6 GiB (21.0%)
  RAM Report:
    permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i3 M 330 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Westmere
    gen: core 1 built: 2010-11 process: Intel 32nm family: 6 model-id: 0x25 (37)
    stepping: 2 microcode: 0x11
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
    L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1415 high: 1463 min/max: 933/2133 scaling:
    driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1274 2: 1463 3: 1463
    4: 1463 bogomips: 17030
  Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov
    constant_tsc cpuid cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts ept est flexpriority
    flush_l1d fpu fxsr ht ibpb ibrs lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr
    nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pdcm pebs pge pni popcnt pse pse36 pti
    rdtscp rep_good sep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2
    tpr_shadow tsc vme vmx vnmi vpid xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
    mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds
    status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GT216M [GeForce GT 330M] vendor: Samsung Co driver: nvidia
    v: 340.108 alternate: nouveau non-free: 340.xx
    status: legacy (EOL, try --gpu) arch: Tesla process: 40-80nm
    built: 2006-13 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 2
    speed: 5 GT/s bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a29 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Z-Star Micro WebCam SCB-1900N type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-1.1:3 chip-ID: 0ac8:c342 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver: X:
    loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 102 s-size: 340x191mm (13.39x7.52")
    s-diag: 390mm (15.35")
  Monitor-1: LVDS-0 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101
    size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.55") modes: N/A
  Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio
    vendor: Samsung Co R730 Laptop driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3b56 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GT216 HDMI Audio vendor: Samsung Co driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 2
    speed: 5 GT/s bus-ID: 02:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be2 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.18.10-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Foxconn T77H121.05 802.11bgn driver: ath9k v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:002b class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Device-2: Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059 [PCIe Gigabit Ethernet with AVB]
    vendor: Samsung Co driver: sky2 v: 1.30 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 5000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 11ab:4381 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Broadcom Bluetooth 2.1 Device type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-1.3:4 chip-ID: 0a5c:219b class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 8.21 GiB (7.3%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SHSS37A120G
    size: 111.79 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 00.r scheme: MBR
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: TSSTcorp model: CDDVDW TS-L633C rev: SC01
    dev-links: cdrom
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
    rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 102.99 GiB size: 100.81 GiB (97.89%) used: 8.21 GiB (8.1%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
    uuid: 59a0007c-1f75-4ba1-8006-232fa170e177
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: swap
    uuid: 3464b826-623e-412f-bd2a-504365f5cff9
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0020 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-1.1:3 info: Z-Star Micro WebCam SCB-1900N type: Video
    driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 320mA
    chip-ID: 0ac8:c342 class-ID: 0e02
  Device-2: 1-1.3:4 info: Broadcom Bluetooth 2.1 Device type: Bluetooth
    driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 0a5c:219b
    class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0020 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 2-1.2:3 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Mouse,HID
    driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c52f class-ID: 0300
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 59 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 181 Uptime: 3m wakeups: 5 Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 14.0.6 Packages: pacman: 936
  lib: 287 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.19
[maciek@maciek-r580r590 ~]$
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Tried installing Optimus-manager and optimus-manager-qt for graphics card management. After reboot, the system only boots in text mode.

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please post the output of the following commands

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

next one

glxinfo | egrep -i server

and

prime-run glxinfo | egrep -i server

and

systemctl status optimus-manager
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according to your output you have only nvidia graphics, so theres no need to switch between anything, you are already running on nvidia…

now, in the stuck screen after optimus installation, enter into tty: ctrl+alt+f2 or f1-f6 keys instead, enter your credentials, remove optimus:
pamac remove optimus-manager optimus-manager-qt
systemctl reboot