Good, greetings to all I am completely new to Manjaro, although with some Linux experience.
I have installed Manjaro on a new laptop but I am reading that the graphic card NVIDIA GP106M is not fully supported by Linux and that it is only activated with a Windows specific program.
Can you confirm me if this is the case. Or with Manjaro I can use without problems this graphic card?
outsch, that is a fairy-tale. it’s true that raytracing isn’t avaiable at linux but that linux needs a windows-software ? linux exists to get rid of windows.
Hi, no, what I have read is that the system uses the intel integrated graphics card as the main card, and that the NVIDIA GP106M card is only activated when the system is working intensively with graphics. However for the nvidia card to be activated Windows uses a specific software that nvidia has not shared with Linux, so in Linux will not activate its use even if the drivers are installed… I am reading and it seems that there is a program in Linux to activate it manually, Bumble bee, I do not know if all this is correct.
outsch, you have to dig deeper into linux. you’re asking for dual-graphics, a integrated intel and the nvidia. in general the setting is actually that the intel-card is used and the so called “prime” driver is active. in this case you have to add “prime-run” to an application if you want that this application is running explicit with nvidia. the other way is to use “optimus”. with optimus every application is running with the graphics-card that you define explicit (the way that i prefer).
you can check it by opening a console and run
glxinfo | grep server
i expect the output is something with “SGI” in this case intel is active. if you run this command again with
prime-run glxinfo | grep server
and the output is “nvidia” then the prime-driver is active.
if you want to change to optimus and want to run nvidia as standalone i can give you further advice. but before we need the general information of the famous inxi-command that should be given always. please read the below-advice Welcome to Manjaro!
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server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
prime-run glxinfo | grep server
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
I’m sorry, but I didn’t quite understand the operation.
That means then that Manjaro is using nvidia as the first graphics card since its installation and I don’t have to do anything else?
Everything is OK then?
no in your case intel is used as primary and only if you open a application with “prime-run applicationname” this application will run with nvidia, everything else runs still with intel.
So how can I open a particular application with nvidia?
Is there a program for that?
Is there a specific command to use?
The only program that seems to be able to do it is nemo, which is in the repositories, but maybe I’m the one who is confused, sorry.
For example. I use ART’s appimage quite a lot, a photography program fork of Rawtherapee. It’s not in your repositories.
I also use Gimp a lot.
To use them with nvidia, how do I have to do it?
prime-run nemo
or
prime-run rawtherapee
or
prime-run any_application
b) second, edit the icon in the menu with right-click. you will find the programm that is executed (for example nemo). then you edit this entry and add the “prime-run” in front of the executable. close it and it’s saved. next time the programm will run automatically with nvidia-prime
Is there a specific command to use?
Do a right click on your menu >> properties >> Edit menu
or open a terminal and type menulibre
On the left side pick app that you want to run on nvidia, eg firefox. On the right side you see Application Details and the startup command for the app (yours might look different): firefox %u
edit this line to prime-run firefox %u
Then hit ‘Save Launcher’ icon on the top and close menulibre.
On the left side pick app that you want to run on nvidia, eg ART Appimage. On the right side you see Application Details and the startup command for the app (yours might look different): art-appimage %u
edit this line to prime-run art-appimage %u
Then hit ‘Save Launcher’ icon on the top and close menulibre.
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