It used to work fine with open source drivers on Ubuntu 16.04 and some old kernel version. I think my experience over the last few days deserves a small write-up for those who come across this thread in the future. If you have question of theses solutions you can ask on the RPM Fusion end-users mailing list or Report issue to

Personally, I recommend (and support as RPM Fusion NVIDIA package maintainer) only the 2 latter solutions. This solution cannot be relevant for all end-users. NVIDIA can be used to do some non-GL related tasks (so CUDA without gl_interop functions). Use the Intel driver as default on optimus system, (undocumented yet), you will use intel for all desktop operations.You will use the FLOSS driver (intel, nouveau) and nouveau will shutdown the GPU if not used. This is easy as to reboot and remove all of “rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1” on the grub line. Switch between NVIDIA and FLOSS driver.

This is not at all related/interfaced to the so called “prime” support, which is a buffer sharing mechanism in kernel space.Īs soon as Fedora is concerned, the only method that can be recommended (if ever using the NVIDIA driver is supported, at least it’s what we can support on the RPM Fusion side), are the following. This is a Ubuntu collection of scripts (hacks) to switch between NVIDIA and Intel in the back of end-users. But can mimic what one expect by using Optimus on others OSes. This method is not supported by upstream (xorg, mesa, libdrm, etc) or NVIDIA. I was addressed on few others post already. The long term goal is probably be solved with next Xorg server, if it will allow “offloadsink”. There are fews more or less broken hacks to allow switching between NVIDIA or Intel.

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