Fedora prime

Switching between intel/nvidia drivers made simple.

This repository contains just two scripts setup-intel.sh and setup-nvidia.sh. Those scripts are modifying kernel parameters to enable/disable nouveau and nvidia drivers. Doing so should switch which gpu is used.

While nouveau driver is loaded, it should disable discrete gpu. But there is a chance that it will not. Unfortunately it doesn't on my laptop, so I decided to change my linux distro. This means that I'll no longer actively maintain fedora-prime, but I'll still accept pull requests or maybe even work on some issues. But still, I encourage you to try fedora-prime. If it will not work for you, try to use 0.1.1 version (see releases or tags).

Getting started

Prerequesites

• RPM Fusion nvidia drivers or negativo17 nvidia drivers

Installation

Copy and paste setup-intel.sh and setup-nvidia.sh into some directory on your PC (for example /usr/bin or ~/bin).

Usage

To use intel run:

sudo ./setup-intel.sh

To use nvidia run:

sudo ./setup-nvidia.sh

Now you must reboot.

To check if it's working run:

glxinfo | grep 'OpenGL renderer'

This will print which gpu is used. But even if it's intel, nvidia gpu may be still on. To check that use powertop.

License

This project is licensed under MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.