Linux is really in the stone ages when it comes to this. 
Well…i know some people have been able to set this up that have the hardware. I don’t and i haven’t done it so I’m not much help. It also depends on what you are trying to do. There are a few different set ups?
Yes. But it’s incredibly difficult. So much mixed information out there. Usually the guides just aren’t idiot-proof, which they should be.
No i agree it’s incredibly difficult. Most people do no understand this stuff to begin with. So it’s out of the question for the average user. Arch really doesn’t articulate exactly how to do something from start to finish in my opinion.
@ricklinux well no, having it in one configurations means having exactly the configuration with the two devices, in which case I’m not able to see anything on the external monitor. Maybe it would be possible to configure Xorg somehow to “recognize” an external screen in addition to the internal one, but I don’t know how. I’m also not able to see any outputs other than eDP-1 in xrandr with this configuration which seems to be the output for the internal display?
@His_Turdness for the most part I find the documentation for arch excellent, and more often than not I learn new things that are required for XYZ. However on such broad topics like the Xorg yeah, I do agree. Maybe you know some “Xorg for dummies” tutorial that you could share?
Maybe some more info…
@hesxenon
Maybe this is what you want?
just in case you want to use
the nvidia render offloading
with a gui tool
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=nd&K=garuda&outdated=&SB=l&SO=d&PP=50&do_Search=Go
well i have ported manjaro’s setting manager and mhwd
to work with arch
How much MAnjaro dependencies will it bring in the mix? Just out of curiousity.
check the aur link
all deps are listed there
So what happens when there’s a systemd or kernel update on Arch which hasn’t reached on Manjaro? Again, I’m just asking out of curiousity.
the package has nothing to do with manjaro
it works with arch directly
if you install it from aur
But it has mhwd dependancies, which is Manjaro specific.
mhwd is ported to arch
and its in aur now
so again nothing related to manjaro
Okay, thanks for the explanation.
My solution is to avoid xorg. I’m using wayland and life is so much easier.
What does that do exactly and which version to pick?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/garuda-settings-manager-git/
just install this
and all other are its dependancies.
then you can just goto garuda-settings-manager > hardware configuration
and run autoinstall proprietory drivers.
This is working for me… finally. My VM is hogging the GPU at boot, so I have to release them for the host and then switch to hybrid or nvidia graphics, but it works. I ignored the “delete all xorg.conf files” part. Seems to be working just fine.
Next up trying to get this to work with Wayland. I can’t get rid of screen tearing on xorg.
Edit: It was working for me. Not sure what I did to break it, maybe trying to get my audio to default to built-in digital, but now I can’t no longer get hybrid graphics working.
Going to reinstall all nvidia drivers, remove and reinstall everything optimus-related and cross my fingers.
Man… I hate xorg.