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    Nvidia - Bumblebee - Optimus - Prime - Envycontrol

    Okay so I'm back with some information. I had another partition with MX Linux Xfce set up for testing and I tried to install both Bumblebee and bbswitch. I failed to install bbswitch but here's the thing. The guys from MX Linux came with some big updates lately, for many software programs and...
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    Nvidia - Bumblebee - Optimus - Prime - Envycontrol

    Ok, so with optirun glxgears -info it did not recognize Nvidia, at least not according to the steps that I previously mentioned. I was also not able to see Nvidia X Server Settings menu. So, what I did was to use MX Nvidia Driver tool for reinstalling Nvidia Driver but without removing or...
  3. Catalin

    Nvidia - Bumblebee - Optimus - Prime - Envycontrol

    I agree sir, and I am actually a very optimistic person. Yesterday I helped my parents install a new LED TV and I was going through the manual, and it's a new one, and it was written there Operating System: Linux and it made me smile. When you think about China which is going to switch 50...
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    Nvidia - Bumblebee - Optimus - Prime - Envycontrol

    Your philosophy comes from engineering. But just because something works it doesn't mean that it doesn't have to also be efficient. In certain situations KISS is just a bad excuse. But this is the problem in the Linux community as far as I've experienced. People don't actually care. I am...
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    Nvidia - Bumblebee - Optimus - Prime - Envycontrol

    Just because the laptop works is not a good reason to not tweak it accordingly. I've been told that battery doesn't last for too long (although it already has TLP and it also has an original and relatively new Asus battery installed in February 2020) and that sometimes it's getting too warm...
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    Nvidia - Bumblebee - Optimus - Prime - Envycontrol

    Ok, then what do you recommend me that I should do? For example, how can I completely deactivate Nvidia GPU? (since that would seem the easiest way to go)
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    Nvidia - Bumblebee - Optimus - Prime - Envycontrol

    Unfortunately I don't have the option to turn it off from Bios. Obviously. As I said, I am not dying over using Nvidia graphics card. If I had the option to take it out from the laptop I would have done it a long time ago but it's soldered. Never again will I buy Nvidia. Could there be an...
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    Nvidia - Bumblebee - Optimus - Prime - Envycontrol

    Hello again Linux community! <3 :D I have successfully installed MX Linux Xfce edition on my family's laptop. (this time Debian Stable as Manjaro was not a good option) Since it's being used in a very conservative fashion, only for e-mail, office, web browsing and occasionally some Youtube...
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    Im so dumb i forgot....

    If you installed the Linux system with Grub (what generally happens most of the times with standard and manual partitioning if not specified otherwise) what you should probably do is to go to Bios settings and have the Linux operating system be the first option when booting. After this you...
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    Complicated problem - All linux distros freeze, briefly run sluggish, and some cannot be installed (INFO provided) [Expert needed]

    I found one more way of resolving this issue and I thought I would write it down here for others to see in case of need. As I also had problems with live installations getting stuck (no matter the architecture or distro). The ones I was able to install would somehow loose all the free space in...
  11. Catalin

    NVIDIA Releases Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules

    Well it's not full open source yet, as I understood the source code of Cuda cores is still going to be closed. This would be more like a first step. Now.. since I am not gaming anymore, basically just doing normal office-like work on my computer (even though it's a gaming PC) I think I should be...
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    NVIDIA Releases Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules

    I just saw it a couple of minutes ago on DistroTube and boy am I excited about this! I have Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 on my main PC and it has Turing architecture which means that I will get the benefits out of this. The question would be if this change can also be seen on Debian and Ubuntu in...
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    Corrupted USB Drive with I/O error

    I think you are right with this. Today I used Ventoy 1.72 on Linux, on my EMTEC 16GB USB drive to add Manjaro KDE iso to use the KDE partition Manager to extend my root size. When I tried to boot live, the iso seemed corrupted and I received the bad magic number error in boot, white on black...
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    Corrupted USB Drive with I/O error

    I will go for a Kingston as it's easy to find and affordable at the same time. All my hard disks and SSDs are Kingston and I never had an issue with them. Thanks for the info!
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    Corrupted USB Drive with I/O error

    Alright, thanks for the information! I also had a Bluetooth stick from Hama and I was disappointed by it, I returned it. I will not choose this one again. What brands do you recommend?
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    Corrupted USB Drive with I/O error

    I agree with you, I will also buy a new one but maybe I can still use this one a couple more times for some live sessions. However, I think there might be some good news about this? I have this: sudo dd if=/dev/sdd of=/dev/null bs=1M...
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    Corrupted USB Drive with I/O error

    Hello community! I've been testing some distros lately as I need to find other possible options for an older member of my family. So, I have this Hama 3.0 USB Drive 64 GB that I have been using but today it stopped working. I have this one since February 2020 and I barely used it, and when I...
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    Complicated problem - All linux distros freeze, briefly run sluggish, and some cannot be installed (INFO provided) [Expert needed]

    Alright guys, I'm back and.. So far so good! I've been testing it for some days and Manjaro KDE seems to be working just fine on the laptop. What I did is this: And this: I changed the Nvidia driver using the Manjaro GUI from 510 to 470.103.01 Prime (I did not go for 495 because it was not in...
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    Complicated problem - All linux distros freeze, briefly run sluggish, and some cannot be installed (INFO provided) [Expert needed]

    Awesome! But I am still not sure about MSI/grub modification. I had pretty much the same issues in the past when I tried to have only Linux on this laptop. However, now I also have Windows 10 on it, dual boot on the SSD, would there be a problem with it if I modify it? And yes, I would also...
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    Complicated problem - All linux distros freeze, briefly run sluggish, and some cannot be installed (INFO provided) [Expert needed]

    I got the information: I understand you guys, but how do I roll back to one specific nvidia version. How do I know which one is the best? And how do I keep it from updating itself to newer versions? Yes please, I also want to know if there is an Intel problem :)
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