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Distro Question (pawb.social)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have an HP Victus laptop that I'm trying to get to fully work. It has two GPUs. The integrated is an AMD and the discrete is an Nvidia. For about a month I've been attempting to get Debian 12 to see and use the Nvidia card. My knowledge on anything Linux is not strong.

I got as far as getting the proprietary driver loaded. I just couldn't get anything to side load it when I launched anything.

I've stepped back a bit, and started to wonder if I'd have a better experience if I tried a different distro. I've heard some are better for multi-GPU situations like Manjaro.

So I guess I'm asking everyone if I should try jumping distros for this AMD/Nvidia situation?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I have dual-GPUs and Arch seems to work fine for me. I'd try it out on a live ISO before you wipe Debian though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

HOW??? I've been trying off and on to get dual GPUs (AMD+Nvidia) working on Arch for coming up on a year now. nvidia-xrun turns off the internal display and I have to connect an external monitor in order to see anything, and nvx works for compute applications (works great in Blender, for example) but when I launch a game, either it runs on the IGP, or I get audio but no video. Which method do you use?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@AVincentInSpace @demomantf2real I'm gonna be completely honest with you, it just worked. I use dual NV on a desktop (so only external monitor)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wait, dual GPU on desktop is still a thing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

@AVincentInSpace Yep. Originally I had it for virtualization but didn't have enough space for virtualization to be useful.

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