Has anyone successfully installed NVIDIA driver to Optimus enabled laptops?

[puneetse]

I remember @specter and @mstute made some notes about their journey with Optimus. Maybe they’ll have some ideas for you.

Here are their previous posts:

Bash scripts to automate installation of NVIDIA proprietary driver

Ok, I finally got this working! Cannot believe how hard this was. So, installing the nvidia driver with the tutorial was only half the way. This is my first notebook with an integrated and a nvidia gpu. So the problem was that the i915 gpu was the default one and just used for everything. As I don’t have access to the bios, I couldn’t switch to discreet only. So what I did. I added two more modules to blacklist disable-nouveau.conf: blacklist nouveau blacklist nvidiafb blacklist rivafb op…

Gotta Love Optimus

So just checking a few things regarding ClearLinux and my main laptop with is a shiny new Asus Q53F with the dreaded Optimus Nvidia as the discrete processor and an Intel as the main graphics device. I thought I’d see how Clear handled this. My distro of choice is the distro that can make all other distros, Gentoo. Since Gentoo has not yet adopted Xorg 1.20 and it’s use of the GL vendor library changes in Mesa (libglvnd) to automatically offload to the more powerful Nvidia GPU I’ve had to do a…