Hello Everyone!

In this tutorial I will be showing you how to install Nvidia Graphics Card into an Ubuntu running Optimus Laptop.

How to verify that you have two gpus

lspci | grep -E “VGA|3D”

How to Disable Nouveau

echo -e “blacklist nouveau

options nouveau modeset=0

alias nouveau off” > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

update-initramfs -u && reboot

After the installation

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

How to find PCI = nvidia-xconfig –query-gpu-info | grep ‘BusID : ‘ | cut -d ‘ ‘ -f6

Section “ServerLayout”

Identifier “layout”

Screen 0 “nvidia”

Inactive “intel”

EndSection

Section “Device”

Identifier “nvidia”

Driver “nvidia”

BusID “PCI:10:0:0”

EndSection

Section “Screen”

Identifier “nvidia”

Device “nvidia”

Option “AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration”

EndSection

Section “Device”

Identifier “intel”

Driver “modesetting”

EndSection

Section “Screen”

Identifier “intel”

Device “intel”

EndSection

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/usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart/optimus.desktop

/etc/xdg/autostart/optimus.desktop

[Desktop Entry]

Type=Application

Name=Optimus

Exec=sh -c “xrandr –setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0; xrandr –auto”

NoDisplay=true

X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=DisplayServer

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run nvidia-smi to verify that your card is running

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