How can i enable my Nvidia Card after Installation?

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Hi there!

I am using EOS on my Thinkpad T480s.
There is a built in Nvidia MX150 GPU in that system.

A few days ago i switched to 4k Displays. The Performance is sluggish. If I play any 4k Video on Youtube all 8 CPU cores are nearby 100% (using Vivaldi). Using Firefox the Performance is much better, but that anywhere I would like it to be.

So, i thought that the solution is using the internal MX150 GPU. At the moment I am using the Intel GPU.

How can I activate the nvidia card without crashing my system?

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 [8086:5917] (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX150] [10de:1d12] (rev a1)

Thank you for any help!

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This will not help you, but I have always had problems with 4k and YouTube on Linux. No matter what distro or computer I had. Think hardware acceleration is not good yet. CPU has to work hard.

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Even for Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 that’s extremely high to have all 8 CPU x 100%
What’s your setup routine for drivers?

You might wanna check that out:
https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/optimus-switch-another-solution-for-optimus-laptops/7593

That’s the best way to setup Optimus

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there are several optons available for optimus laptops. See here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus

one of the available methods is PRIME, where no re-login is needed (what i like) - just use the prime-run prefix.

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There is an nvidia installer script coming with the installation.
https://endeavouros.com/docs/hardware-and-network/graphic-cards-gpu-driver-and-setup/nvidia/nvidia-installer/

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and useful information on this optimus notebooks here:

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Hi,

thank you for you responding and sorry for my delayed answer.
The main Question for me is:

I am currently running on Intel GPU. If i Use the nvidia installer, will I be able to use it effective immediately or do i have to go through some blank screens after rebooting?

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in most cases it will boot up on intel after installing Nvidia drivers, depending if you nvidia chip is supported by latest Nvidia driver or it is such legacy chip.

lspci -vnn | grep ‘’’[030[02]]’

would give the needed info.