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    Disable Nvidia Optimus on Acer 5750G

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by manazius, Aug 21, 2014.

  1. manazius

    manazius Newbie

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    Hi all! I need to disable the Nvidia Optimus technology because it is not supported on Linux. That worked only Nvidia. Is it possible? If yes - how?
    I know that there is an unofficial support Nvidia Optimus on Linux, tipo bumblebee, but there is little performance. Thanks!
     
    manazius, Aug 21, 2014
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  2. snow2101

    snow2101 Newbie

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    change bios
    in the BIOS you was looking earlier and under the graphics options it only offered me 'integrated' or 'switchable as options.'
    select integrated
     
    snow2101, Aug 27, 2014
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  3. manazius

    manazius Newbie

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    No. I need to work only Nvidia
     
    manazius, Aug 27, 2014
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    you can change and success
    you can work only nividia. I was successful
     
    snow2101, Aug 29, 2014
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    ellric Notebook Guru

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    You can't disable the integrated card and let on only the dedicated card active, optimum technology doesn't permit that. Linux (at least Ubuntu and fedora) has native support for optimus now (nvidia-prime package) but Bumblebee is still better. Really don't know what you mean with "there is little performance" but it is, with primus, as good as windows optimus, the only difference is that the switch is not automatic (you need to launch programs that need the dgpu with primusrun command).
     
    ellric, Oct 4, 2014
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