we try to have hardware detection, but it could be also simple a helper script with options to add for the different hardware/DE/DM combinations what will work without the need to detect hardware, but can fail if you use it wrongly 
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Oh well, i removed that part somehow from my memory 
Yeah, user input is probably best idea anyway.
P.S. Anyway, if you need list of current Nvidia Hybrid / Optimus GPUs ping me iāll try to dump it like in my good old windows driver modding times 
The MATE Optimus indicator will not appear unless you have a compatible system and the appropriate drivers are installed.
(c) https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-optimus
The ācompatible systemā part might be of interest perhaps something useful can be found in source code 
This one which suffered more during the short 5.10 period than during the three years beforeā¦
[roger@roger-lenovo ~]$ inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] driver: N/A
Device-3: Acer EasyCamera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: intel
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.4
An unintuitive info I grabbed from the old tuto is that Nvidia-settings may behave as a āBumblebee killerā. In any case, I could not make it work (good luck for me) and finally, after reading this, I dropped it.
Bumblebee is reported to be worst for performances. It may make life easier though.
is also not in any way to be used on new hardware it is still usable for some older systemsā¦ but there are only a few left compatible with the latest nvidia driver, so it will pass away soonā¦
i am sure they will use some general use hardware detection framework used by thatā¦
Hi!
Iām new to the eOS community, but it seems like an awesome distro, I am daily driving stock Arch Linux with MATE right now.
I have an optimus setup right now, here are the outputs of the two commands:
lspci:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Iris Xe Graphics [8086:9a49] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
2c:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX330] [10de:1d16] (rev a1)
inxi:
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX330] driver: nvidia v: 460.39
Device-3: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: modesetting,nvidia resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.4
If a consensus has not been reached, I have been working on a tiny script for my distro-hopping, so that I can easily set up my Optimus drivers. I could easily add a GUI and expand it to add more options, such as choosing to only use one GPU or PRIME (use prime-run to run with NVIDIA, otherwise run with Windows, supported by nvidia and same thing windows does). I do need a project to contribute to anyway, and eOS seems great toā¦
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Continuing on, I had another idea, which is that maybe Endeavour can have something like Manjaroās mhwd (Endaveour OS Hardware Configuration? eoshwcfg ) that lets people do more things in addition to the Optimus configuration, for example choose between proprietary or open source drivers, fix screen tearing, install sound drivers (sof-firmware is pretty awesome), switch between kernels (like the latest stable version, the latest LTS version, Zen, etcā¦) and more.
Iād love any feedback or ideas on this!
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Oh huh, that seems pretty slick. I have yet to try Garuda yet but Iāve heard good things about it, although mhwd does have itās fair share of problems.
Also, itās nice to see you here jonathon! I (and Iām sure many others) really appreciate the work you did on manjaro, and were saddened when you left.
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I did install first optimus-manager rather easily but once it was done, I realized that I had also to fine tune the āpower managementā and this proved to be too much for me. So, I reverted to bumblebee, because I mostly use the integrated GPU and very few my Nividia card.
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lspci -vnn | grep āāā[030[02]]ā
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop) [8086:3e92] (prog-if 00 [VGA control
ler])
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] [10de:1b81] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA
controller])
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] driver: nvidia v: 460.39
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: modesetting,nvidia resolution: 3440x1440
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.39
Edit: added inxi output.
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You havenāt installed the inxi package ā¦ available via pacman
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Thanks. There should be a GUI that allows to choose these tools to be isntalled. 
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Dell Precision 7510 with KDE Plasma as DE
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 [8086:191b] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM107GLM [Quadro M1000M] [10de:13b1] (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GM107GLM [Quadro M1000M] driver: N/A
Device-3: Sunplus Innovation Dell E5570 integrated webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.4
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aur/egpu-switcher-git 0.16.0.r0.gd22ce2e-1 (+0 0.00)
Distribution agnostic script that works with NVIDIA and AMD cards.
eGPU stands for external GPU?
Itās not exactly same as Optimus i guess
yea but is this also a thing? who use such stuff?
Well yeah iāve heard of it, it usually aimed for someone with less powerful laptop, slimbook or somethingā¦
And then when you come home you can use eGPU to play games or create 3D graphics, something like a dock station but only for GPU
Personally i havenāt encountered anyone whoād use eGPU, but since itās still on a market - probably someone uses it