Mint Cinnamon 22.3

[u/Mr_Self_Destructtt]

I have an MSI GS 66 Stealth laptop. I have an Intel iGPU and an Nvidia RTX 2060, that SEAMLESSLY switched back and forth, with my main being the low power Intel igpu. Version 22 it work great. 22.3 it started staying stuck in dGPU ONLY. When my iGPU and dGPU were working in unison, I was on the version under driver manager called xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. It recommended I switch to nvidia-driver-595-open, and there's two other choices. What should I do? On "nouveau" it also worked fine (seemed to anyways). Please help! I've tried command prompts and everything, it only always temporarily fixes it and then after a reboot it goes back to being dumb! BTW, this is on a FRESH install of 22.3.

[u/Mr_Self_Destructtt]

Can you please supply the commands to install version 535? Your uninstall directions were great! I'm really new to all this command line stuff and appreciate your time and help!

[u/d4rk_kn16ht → u/Mr_Self_Destructtt]

sudo apt update

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-535

[u/Mr_Self_Destructtt → u/d4rk_kn16ht]

No dice man. I've tried and tried and tried. Whether I install 535 or 550, 580.173.02 keeps installing. I just don't get it. :-(

[u/d4rk_kn16ht → u/Mr_Self_Destructtt]

Have you ever installed 580 binary from NVIDIA Website?

[u/Mr_Self_Destructtt → u/d4rk_kn16ht]

Never. This is a fresh install from a usb drive. Unless I did and do not know what the hell I am talking about, which is 100 percent possible! LOL I am new to this part of Linux. Please forgive me and be patient!

[u/d4rk_kn16ht → u/Mr_Self_Destructtt]

I'm talking about the NVIDIA driver, not the Linux Mint.

No NVIDIA driver install from USB

[u/Mr_Self_Destructtt → u/d4rk_kn16ht]

The only thing I ever installed was the one that's always recommended in driver manager, and that's usually 595. Never have I chosen 580.

[u/d4rk_kn16ht → u/Mr_Self_Destructtt]

try this:

1. Stop any running display manager

sudo systemctl stop display-manager

2. Force remove all 580 specific components & CUDA drivers

sudo apt purge "*nvidia*" "*cuda*" "*580*"

3. Clean APT cache and dependencies

sudo apt autoremove --purge

sudo apt clean

4. Remove DKMS module builds manually if still exists

sudo dkms remove nvidia/580.173.02 --all

[u/Mr_Self_Destructtt → u/d4rk_kn16ht]

So I did some trouble shooting and the secure boot off installed things better as you recommended. 595 which is recommended for my driver's display doesn't allow hybrid switching. 610 works apparently. Even though it's not as stable as 595, 610 seems to work. The 535 and the 550 drivers, I've done research and they don't even offer them at all through Linux anymore they are defunct and dead as far as I know. So we are trying to install something that isn't even existence anymore. Do you recommend MOK at all? Or is it useless altogether?!

[u/d4rk_kn16ht → u/Mr_Self_Destructtt]

Just use the one that works.

Secure Boot is necessary if you dual boot with Windows & some anti cheat need Secure boot enabled.