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?
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-xrunturns off the internal display and I have to connect an external monitor in order to see anything, andnvxworks 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?@AVincentInSpace @demomantf2real I’m gonna be completely honest with you, it just worked. I use dual NV on a desktop (so only external monitor)
Wait, dual GPU on desktop is still a thing?
@AVincentInSpace Yep. Originally I had it for virtualization but didn’t have enough space for virtualization to be useful.