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Hi Folks,

My new game notebook comes with an AMD Rayzen 7 4800H CPU integrated with Radeon Graphics, it also equipped with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card. The notebook originally was pre-installed a Windows 10 pro by the vendor but I has since installed openSUSE Tumbleweed instead. The problem is that the notebook runs on the AMD Radeon Graphics by default since it’s installed Tumbleweed, and can’t seem to activate/use the GeForce RTX graphics card although I did install all necessary nvidia drivers via various depos. I even tried to install Nvidia driver package downloaded directly from its website but it shows the system had already installed the driver named nvidia-gfxG05-kmp. Also, the Mesa-dri-nouveau was not installed and nouveau is blacklisted on 50-blacklist.conf. So my question is how to activate and use Nvidia GeForce graphics card instead of the Radeon Graphics integrated with the CPU?, Originally in the pre-installed Windows 10 pro, it had to download an app named GeForce Experience to enable the GeForce card, and what to do in the openSUSE case?

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It seems you need to install and use suse-prime to switch to the NVidia GPU.

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It turns out I’ve installed the wrong script suse-prime-bbswitch, it should be suse-prime installed instead. Now my notebook boots with the Nvidia GeForce card!

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The thread: ASUS A15 TUF Gaming 506 IU Laptop Ryzen7 4800h –running linux on it & hybrid graphics (AMD+Nvidia) helps a lot!

I actually had already installed all necessary Nvidia drivers but also installed the wrong script suse-prime-bbswitch from Yast instead of suse-prime. Now after suse-prime-bbswitch uninstalled and suse-prime installed correctly, just issued

sudo prime-select nvidia

and logout or reboot, the notebook boots with the Nvidia GeForce card correctly!

superuser@localhost:~> inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile] driver: nvidia v: 450.80.02 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
           Device-3: Chicony HD Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
           Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting,nvidia resolution: <xdpyinfo missing> 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 450.80.02