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## Introduction

This repository has a set of tools to manage the status of the NVIDIA graphics card on an Optimus™ setup. It now supports [Solus](https://getsol.us/home/) with [Budgie](https://budgie-desktop.org/home/) or [Gnome](https://www.gnome.org/) desktop.
This repository has a set of tools to manage the status of the NVIDIA graphics card on an Optimus™ setup. It now supports [Solus](https://getsol.us/home/) with [Budgie](https://budgie-desktop.org/home/), [MATE](https://mate-desktop.org/) or [Gnome](https://www.gnome.org/) desktop.

Three profiles are implemented in the `nvidia-optimus-manager` script:
- `intel`: The Intel integrated GPU is used for display rendering and the dGPU is suspended by runtime power management. Running the `nvidia-smi` command gives
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## AUTOMATED SCRIPT INSTALL
- Install the NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver
- Download this repo, extract, cd into nvidia-optimus-manager-master, and from your terminal, run:
```
sh nvidia-optimus-installer.sh
```
- The script will automatically install and configure everything for Gnome or Budgie.
Please note: Don't run with `sudo`
- The script will automatically install and configure everything for Gnome, MATE, or Budgie.
- Reboot
- That's it!
## Things to do before installation
## Things to do before manual installation
- Install the NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver
- Blacklist the `nouveau` driver:
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- `99-nvidia.conf`: copy to `/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/99-nvidia.conf` # This may be the old path! User must confirm.
- `99-nvidia.conf`: copy to `/etc/gdm/99-nvidia.conf` # This is confirmed to be the path for new installs.
For MATE:
- `99-nvidia.conf`: copy to `/etc/gdm/99-nvidia.conf`
For Gnome:
- `99-nvidia.conf`: copy to `/etc/gdm/99-nvidia.conf`
For Both:
For ALL:
- `nvidia-optimus-autoconfig.service`: copy to `/etc/systemd/system/nvidia-optimus-autoconfig.service`
- `nvidia-optimus-manager`: copy to `/usr/bin/nvidia-optimus-manager`
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