[RndTbl] intel-media-driver with Intel 1165G7 and Rocky 9

[Adam Thompson]

Ah, yes, much detail was omitted in the OP :-).

Both nVidia and AMD have solutions for that under Linux, but IIRC they barely worked.  I think nVidia's was called Optimus, can't recall the AMD name.

The VAAPI driver may or may not help his system, but it sure won't do GPU switching!

The nVidia binary drivers may work with Wayland, but as of ~12mos ago, the consensus was "just run X", and I can't find anything that says it's officially supported at all.

The AMD story is barely even documented... typical. :-/ It was relatively rare in the wild to find switchable AMD GPUs in the first place.

As usual, ArchLinux has top-notch documentation on the subject: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/hybrid_graphics

Looks like if you want PRIME under Waytland, you may be pulling a Panasonic: just slightly ahead of your time!

-Adam

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From: Trevor Cordes <trevor at tecnopolis.ca>
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2023 11:18:14 PM
To: Adam Thompson <athompso at athompso.net>
Cc: Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable at muug.ca>
Subject: Re: [RndTbl] intel-media-driver with Intel 1165G7 and Rocky 9

On 2023-02-18 Adam Thompson wrote:
> You’re not seeing any results because that’s not a kernel module.

Ya, no .ko.xz, no kernel module in the rpm.

Adam nailed it.  But we should go back to Chris' main pain point, which
you might have missed because he brought it up at the last meeting: (I
think) he wants the hardware/software switching that some laptops do
between discrete / onboard video auto-switching to work in linux.

But now that we're reading all this detail, I'm a bit baffled because
Intel doesn't really do a discrete / onboard thing at all, do they?
Now, maybe Chris has a Intel-onboard / Nvidia-discrete laptop, which
were somewhat common on the high-end in the past?

And AFAIK no one ever got those to work with Linux (in X) without
having a reboot in between and doing a bunch of driver disabling/etc.
They were more a Windows thing.

And I think (from other conversations) he doing this because games.

Maybe it would be helpful if Chris told us his laptop brand / model,
and confirm what the base issue is.

P.S. Nice that Intel is trying to do linux drivers "right" (sans the
auto-switching).  I fight with the nvidia binary akmod issues every few
years, and it's a real pain they don't just integrate it all into the
kernel.
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