So i’m helping my best friend to try instaling nvidia gtx 1050 mobile drivers on his laptop, we genualy don’t know what to do and i can figure out how to make it work, so it would be very helpfull if someone could explain me what to do or provive me with a guide to make it work

  • Liz_thestrange@lemmy.mlOP
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    11 months ago

    I’m reading again everything to see for something that could help, it’s look like optimus could be a solution, thanks

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      11 months ago

      Optimus gets complex quick. You’ll be reading pci bus ids before you know it. Keep the wiki open, go slowly; you got this :)

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      11 months ago

      Indeed, since it’s a laptop. It uses the iGPU for battery saving graphics and the Nvidia dGPU for performance. That’s hybrid graphics / optimus.

      That said, Nvidia is a pain. I always recommend distrohopping until you land on a distro that mostly works for your use case and go from there.