Hybrid graphics

This page details the use of NVIDIA and Intel hybrid graphics.

When are hybrid graphics useful?

• The display is connected to the iGPU.
• There is no hardware multiplexer available (and therefore no BIOS option to switch to one of the cards)
• NVIDIA and Intel cards are the two graphic cards on the device.

What options are available?

• Proprietary NVIDIA drivers with Bumblebee.
• Nouveau with PRIME.

Note
Bumblebee does not work correctly with Nouveau.

See also

• Nouveau — the open source driver for NVIDIA graphic cards.
• NVIDIA/nvidia-drivers — The x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers package contains the proprietary graphics driver for NVIDIA graphic cards.
• NVIDIA/Bumblebee — an open source implementation of NVIDIA Optimus.

External resources

• http://www.ashmew2.me/#adventures_nvidia - Experiences with setting up a hybrid graphics setup and running into multiple problems.
• https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bumblebee-gentoo/ - Bumblebee Overlay