I have a Thinkpad X1 Extreme and the connectors for external screens are hardwired to the Nvidia GPU. The only way I can use an external screen with the laptop screen turned off is to use Nvidia’s proprietary drivers in combination with optimus-manager. Couldn’t get it to work with Nouveau drivers or without optimus-manager – it’s either not working at all or the frame rate drops to 1 frame in 10 seconds. Looked it up online and the suggested fix was to use optimus-manager.
Will investigate if there is a better solution by now. Would be more than happy to drop it, especially now that I have to get it from the AUR.
I must admit that I also had a problem after the manjaro update, but it was because I updated the kernel to version 5.15 and at that moment my “optimus-manager” stopped working, I solved it by changing the kernel to “LTS” 5.10
Thanks for the highlight.
For the record the AUR package is working, uninstalling the ex-official package and installing it (AUR) worked.
That said I’m kinda baffled that a project as big as Manjaro doesn’t have the resources to test this packages. I mean pretty much all laptops have hybrid GPU solutions, no? (considering NVIDIA still dominates on laptop market)