Marcin Tchórznicki composed on 2023-03-12 13:44 (UTC-0400):
> I have installed Debian 11 on my laptop. The computer has an intel
> integrated graphics card and an Nvidia graphics card on board. Debian
> has the nouveau driver. After installing the dedicated Nvidia driver, X
> server shows an error, no xorg.conf. Is there any way under Debian 11 to
> be able to switch between integrated graphics card and Nvidia card ?
> Some games do not work under Linux on the integrated card. Please help.
There is no "the" nouveau driver. Each kernel provides a nouveau device module
(driver). Next there is a nouveau display driver for X, possibly best handled
thus:
apt purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
This is because it is reverse engineered and old technology. The upstream
default,
newer technology, not separately packaged, display driver modesetting should be
(but is not) the only display driver anyone needs. Both nouveau and modesetting
should be evaluated on any particular installation, and the better selected for
use.
There's also:
libdrm-nouveau2: Userspace interface to nouveau-specific kernel DRM services --
runtime
<https://wiki.debian.org/NVIDIA Optimus> should be the starting point for
any Debian user with Intel+NVidia graphics hardware that doesn't work OOTB.
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