Your help and @Adubs help has been immense. This one of my first times actually using Linux on a PC and I’ve never dealt with preparing the OS for day to day use. I’ve only been involved in it through the Pi. I’m really really greatful for all the suggestions, help and instructions you gave me. Thank you so so much.
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Why is switching a shitshow? Add the graphics drivers ppk, sudo apt install nvidia-driver-xxx, reboot, and wham, bam, thank you maam!
I have a dell latitude with nvs 5200m and popos and i have always had issues with nvidia drivers on this - linux mint seems to be the only thing that works out of the box with nvidia prime though i HAVE gotten it to work on deepin (not OOB tho)…for popos i use 3.40 drivers and they work fine though there is no switching to intel even though the system76 swticher is still there…i forget exactly what I had to do to get it here but there was a lot of purge nvidia* happening, that I can tell you…however as long as you arent planing to switch to intel and want to use just the dgpu this should be fine…note too that i found that it will SAY that it is using nvidia in the system panel at the top right but it isnt until you install drivers manually
if this happens again then reboot but at grub go to advanced options and open recovery mode, enter a root shell and do apt-get purge nvidia* and reboot and usually it will get you to the desktop on ONE of the gpus at which time you can try the install again, either from the terminal or the pop shop
as for the system taking forever to boot - run systemd-analyze blame and you will probably find that its a problem with the systemd-udev-settle.service which seems to happen often on centos and rhel as well:
https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=66517
i forget the exact command and it looks like fedora removed the page that i used to go to to copy it but i disabled that service…honestly i dont remember much about it except that it always works on MY machine…check the blame command and see what is says if it happens again anyway
Because it doesn’t switch on the fly and you still have to reboot. Install Windows and it does it on the fly no reboot needed.
Don’t hijack please.
Thanks a lot for this little guide you put together, I really appreciate it. I’ve never really had issues with Ubuntu based distros with my configuration except for PopOS. It’s not really designed to run this old of a GPU so I’m not mad that I broke it pretty easly.
Well I use the switchable graphics even if I’m plugged in because makes the system run cooler and quiteter. On this machine I have two headpipes for the CPU and the GPU and one fan so if I keep the Nvidia GPU on it spins the fan almost always.
@Richard1 I don’t think you dealt with the situation I was in. As I said I’ve never had issues with other Ubuntu based distros to run successfully the witchable graphics. PopOS has an integrated power management really tied in with the 418 drivers. If you touch those the risk of breaking the system is pretty high (especially if you’re a noob like me).
@wendell @1:50 you said that you tried PopOS on a notebook almost exactly like mine. My experience, beside the driver issues, wasn’t that great (18.10) and broke the installation trying to make it work with that GPU. Any tips on how to make it run as well as you experienced? Also I tend to run in it “desktop mode” without the battery and all the controls for power management disappear if I do that. Thanks!