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Provide nvidia-prime like package for openSUSE
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Feature request: Be able to offload to Intel #95

Open Raviu56 opened 1 year ago

Raviu56 commented 1 year ago

Thanks so much for this gem tool.

Here is my inxi -G output

Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P GT1 [UHD Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile] driver: nvidia
    v: 525.89.02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 23.1.0 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~120Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.89.02 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
    Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2

I'm using prime-select to use nvidia . I know about the current offload mode which allows me to run Intel and offload some programs to nvidia. I need the vise versa, run on nvidia and be able to offload some programs to intel graphics.

I've some use-cases where this could be very useful for me, one of them running 3D accelerated VMs on Intel card when I'm having busy nvidia card.

sndirsch commented 1 year ago

First you need to check with xrandr using --listproviders, --setprovideroutputsource, --setprovideroffloadsink options if this can be configured at all.

Even it is be possible, I'm rather reluctant to add such a feature. SUSEPrime already became rather complex and hard to maintain. I suggest to begin with a script for your needs using xrandr instead.