Hello,
I have an old Alienware m15 laptop with intel i915 graphic and nvidia RTX2080.
I installed Kali 2022 on it, everything is ok working perfect, both graphic cards are installed. for nvidia i followed the kali documentation to install it here
the problem is when i launch an app that requires nvidia, the app is using intel graphic instead, switching is not happening.
I have searched several solutions on google but so far im still stuck.
1/ i was supposed to find and option in nvidia setup to set nvidia to "prefered" but this option is not available in my nvidia panel.
2/ then i tried the DRI_PRIME=1 <my_app> and this did not work too
3/ then i tried to blacklist i915 and regen initramfs, this ended by making the laptop to fail booting, it seems to absolutely want to boot using intel graphic
4/ i tried to follow some youtuber solution :
Code:xrandr--listproviders Providers: number : 2 Provider 0: id: 0x46 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 3 outputs: 5 associated providers: 1 name:mod esetting Provider 1: id: 0x270 cap: 0x2, Sink Output crtcs: 4 outputs: 3 associated providers: 1 name:NVIDIA-G0 sudoxrandr--setprovideroffloadsink 0x270 0x46 X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 140 (RANDR) Minor opcode of failed request: 34 (RRSetProviderOffloadSink) Value in failed request: 0x270 Serial number of failed request: 16 Current serial number in output stream: 17
Code:lsmod|grep nvidia nvidia_drm 73728 2 nvidia_modeset 1155072 3 nvidia_drm nvidia 39178240 98 nvidia_modeset drm_kms_helper 204800 3 drm_display_helper,nvidia_drm,i915 drmso far i dont know what to do !Code:lspci|grep-i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU104M [GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile] (rev a1)
How can i desactivate the intel graphic and force the use of nvidia card ?
thank you for helping.
