Hello everybody
I recently bought an Asus Pro 15 and installed Manjaro alongside Windows 11.
My dGPU is active, and I can’t figure out how to switch to the iGPU to save power and extend my battery life.
I’m not a Linux expert user, but I think this command output might help.
> lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P [Intel Arc Graphics] (rev 08)
DeviceName: Onboard - Video
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 3698
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0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107BM / GN20-P0-R-K2 [GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU] (rev a1)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 3698
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
> inxi --filter --verbosity=8
System:
Kernel: 6.14.6-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.14-x86_64
root=UUID=bedd2cd0-00db-486d-88df-c30be3b8747c rw quiet splash
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.14.0
wm: kwin_wayland with: krunner vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 N6506MJ_Q543MJ
v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: N6506MJ v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: N6506MJ.311
date: 02/25/2025
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 76.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 76.0/75.0 Wh (101.3%)
volts: 17.7 min: 15.9 model: S560647 type: Unknown serial: <filter>
status: full cycles: 4
Memory:
System RAM: total: 24 GiB available: 22.84 GiB used: 13.5 GiB (59.1%)
Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
Array-1: capacity: N/A slots: 2 modules: 2 EC: None max-module-size: N/A
Device-1: Controller0-ChannelA type: DDR5 detail: synchronous size: 8 GiB
speed: 5600 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1 min: 1 max: 1 width (bits):
data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Micron Technology
part-no: MTC4C10163S1SC56BD1 serial: N/A
Device-2: Controller1-ChannelA-DIMM0 type: DDR5 detail: synchronous
size: 16 GiB speed: 5600 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1 min: 1 max: 1
width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Samsung
part-no: M425R2GA3PB0-CWMOL serial: <filter>
PCI Slots:
Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core Ultra 9 185H bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
arch: Meteor Lake level: v3 note: check built: 2023+ process: Intel 4 (7nm)
family: 6 model-id: 0xAA (170) stepping: 4 microcode: 0x24
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 9 cores: 16 threads: 22 mt: 6 tpc: 2
st: 10 smt: enabled cache: L1: 1.6 MiB desc: d-10x32 KiB, 6x48 KiB; i-16x64
KiB L2: 18 MiB desc: 9x2 MiB L3: 24 MiB desc: 1x24 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/4800:5100:3800:2500 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400 4: 400
5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 400 12: 400 13: 400 14: 400
15: 400 16: 400 17: 400 18: 400 19: 400 20: 400 21: 400 22: 400
bogomips: 135168
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_lbr arch_perfmon art avx avx2 avx_vnni bmi1 bmi2
bts bus_lock_detect clflush clflushopt clwb cmov constant_tsc cpuid
cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est
f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr gfni hfi ht hwp
hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify hwp_pkg_req ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ibt
ida intel_pt invpcid lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe
movdir64b movdiri msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx ospke pae pat pbe pcid
pclmulqdq pconfig pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pku pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts
rdpid rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep serialize sha_ni smap smep
smx split_lock_detect ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall
tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer tsc_known_freq umip
user_shstk vaes vme vmx vnmi vpclmulqdq vpid waitpkg x2apic xgetbv1 xsave
xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: ghostwrite status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow 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: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB:
conditional; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: BHI_DIS_S
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Meteor Lake-P [Intel Arc Graphics] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: i915 v: kernel alternate: xe arch: Xe-LPG process: Intel 4 (7nm+)
built: 2023+ ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4
bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:7d55 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GA107BM / GN20-P0-R-K2 [GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU]
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 570.144 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
non-free: 550-570.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-04; EOL~2026-12-xx)
arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023 ports:
active: none off: HDMI-A-1 empty: eDP-2 bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:25ac class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Shinetech ASUS 5M WebCam driver: hid-sensor-hub,usbhid,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-9:3
chip-ID: 3277:0058 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa dri: iris
gpu: i915,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch d-rect: 3840x1200 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 pos: primary,left model: BenQ GW2381 serial: <filter>
built: 2019 res: mode: 1920x1200 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 100 gamma: 1.2
chroma: red: x: 0.655 y: 0.333 green: x: 0.325 y: 0.612 blue: x: 0.153
y: 0.059 white: x: 0.314 y: 0.329 size: 488x297mm (19.21x11.69")
diag: 571mm (22.5") ratio: 15:9 modes: 1920x1200, 1920x1080, 1680x1050,
1600x900, 1280x1024, 1280x800, 1280x720, 1024x768, 800x600, 720x576,
720x480, 640x480
Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: right model: Samsung 0x4161 built: 2020 res:
mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 chroma: red:
x: 0.682 y: 0.322 green: x: 0.235 y: 0.725 blue: x: 0.137 y: 0.047 white:
x: 0.314 y: 0.329 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia nouveau drv: nvidia
platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: nouveau device: 2 drv: iris
device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland:
drv: iris x11: drv: swrast
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.5-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7 256 bits)
device-ID: ffffffff:ffffffff memory: 22.3 GiB unified: yes
display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.313 layers: 1 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU driver: nvidia v: 570.144
device-ID: 10de:25ac surfaces: N/A device: 1 type: integrated-gpu
name: Intel Arc Graphics (MTL) driver: mesa intel v: 25.0.5-arch1.1
device-ID: 8086:7d55 surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Meteor Lake-P HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-mtl
alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_mtl bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:7e28 class-ID: 0401
Device-2: NVIDIA GA107 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:2291
class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.14.6-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Meteor Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:7e40 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 0000:2d:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp45s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
IF-ID-1: br-47d53651f451 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown
mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> virtual: proto kernel_ll scope: link
IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> virtual: proto kernel_ll scope: link
IF-ID-3: veth0bfb199 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
mac: <filter>
IF-ID-4: veth63d0d28 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
mac: <filter>
IF-ID-5: veth781f7a1 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
mac: <filter>
IF-ID-6: veth82cad84 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
mac: <filter>
IF-ID-7: vethadfd92b state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
mac: <filter>
IF-ID-8: vethd35a70c state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, nginx, systemd-timesyncd
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX211 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-10:5 chip-ID: 8087:0033
class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller Intel
driver: vmd v: 0.6 port: N/A bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:7d0b rev:
class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.86 TiB used: 51.88 GiB (2.7%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD PC
SN740 SDDPNQE-2T00-1102 size: 1.86 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 73113000 temp: 63.9 C scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 200 GiB size: 195.8 GiB (97.90%) used: 51.78 GiB (26.4%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9 maj-min: 259:9 label: N/A
uuid: bedd2cd0-00db-486d-88df-c30be3b8747c
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%)
used: 104.9 MiB (41.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
label: SYSTEM uuid: 426F-40E3
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 48 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p10 maj-min: 259:10 label: N/A
uuid: cd662609-0336-4668-9989-9918554ee7f9
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 757.79 GiB fs: ntfs label: OS
uuid: F2F470F4F470BC83
ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 400 GiB fs: ntfs label: Apps
uuid: 9A5A2BCC5A2BA3CB
ID-4: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 size: 200 GiB fs: ntfs label: Movies
uuid: 823CF1D53CF1C3E7
ID-5: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6 size: 300 GiB fs: ntfs label: Storage
uuid: 7636AB0E36AACF05
ID-6: /dev/nvme0n1p7 maj-min: 259:7 size: 1.42 GiB fs: ntfs
label: RECOVERY uuid: 84F8F844F8F83650
ID-7: /dev/nvme0n1p8 maj-min: 259:8 size: 260 MiB fs: vfat label: MYASUS
uuid: E61A-84D7
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 1 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1
speed: 20 Gb/s (2.33 GiB/s) lanes: 2 mode: 3.2 gen-2x2 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 3-4:2 info: Super Top 4-Port hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 100mA
chip-ID: 14cd:8601 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-4.1:4 info: Cypress type: keyboard,mouse
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 04b4:6009 class-ID: 0301
Device-2: 3-4.2:6 info: MosArt Wireless Keyboard/Mouse
type: keyboard,mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 100mA
chip-ID: 062a:4101 class-ID: 0301
Device-3: 3-4.3:7 info: Shenzhen Rapoo Gaming Mouse type: mouse
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1
speed: 1.5 Mb/s (183 KiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.0 power: 100mA
chip-ID: 24ae:4111 class-ID: 0301
Device-4: 3-9:3 info: Shinetech ASUS 5M WebCam type: video,HID
driver: hid-sensor-hub,usbhid,uvcvideo interfaces: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 500mA
chip-ID: 3277:0058 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Device-5: 3-10:5 info: Intel AX211 Bluetooth type: bluetooth driver: btusb
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1
power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0033 class-ID: e001
Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1
speed: 20 Gb/s (2.33 GiB/s) lanes: 2 mode: 3.2 gen-2x2 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Repos:
Packages: 1320 pm: pacman pkgs: 1309 libs: 334 tools: pamac pm: flatpak
pkgs: 0 pm: snap pkgs: 11
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
1: https://mirror.futureweb.be/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
2: https://mirror.alpix.eu/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
3: https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
4: https://ct.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
5: https://ba.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
6: https://mirror.xenyth.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
7: https://fosszone.csd.auth.gr/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
8: https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
CPU top: 5 of 480
1: cpu: 14.0% command: phpstorm pid: 4438 mem: 3526.0 MiB (15.0%)
2: cpu: 9.0% command: v2raya pid: 920 mem: 586.9 MiB (2.5%)
3: cpu: 7.5% command: snapd pid: 66326 mem: 30.3 MiB (0.1%)
4: cpu: 4.4% command: kwin_wayland pid: 1602 mem: 297.7 MiB (1.2%)
5: cpu: 4.4% command: firefox pid: 2433 mem: 660.5 MiB (2.8%)
Memory top: 5 of 480
1: mem: 3526.0 MiB (15.0%) command: phpstorm pid: 4438 cpu: 14.0%
2: mem: 1147.1 MiB (4.9%) command: telegram-desktop pid: 3267 cpu: 2.8%
3: mem: 1037.0 MiB (4.4%) command: firefox pid: 2844 cpu: 1.9%
4: mem: 660.5 MiB (2.8%) command: firefox pid: 2433 cpu: 4.4%
5: mem: 586.9 MiB (2.5%) command: v2raya pid: 920 cpu: 9.0%
Info:
Processes: 480 Power: uptime: 2h 17m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle
avail: deep wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 9.1 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Compilers: clang: 19.1.7 gcc: 15.1.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 running-in: konsole
inxi: 3.3.38
Tip for legibility: