Universal Blue•2y ago

hmm, probably not a good sign

cave monsterOP•6/30/24, 5:22 AM

switcheroo doesn't call it discrete, and calls it unknown

HikariKnight•6/30/24, 5:23 AM

still try the launch option i mentioned

HikariKnight•6/30/24, 5:23 AM

but it might be the reason why it doesnt work

HikariKnight•6/30/24, 5:24 AM

you can force the gpu though

HikariKnight•6/30/24, 5:24 AM

switcheroo launch --gpu=1 bazzite-steamswitcheroo launch --gpu=1 bazzite-steam

HikariKnight•6/30/24, 5:24 AM

make sure steam is not already running

cave monsterOP•6/30/24, 5:28 AM

Steam definitely launched on dedicated graphics, and so did kerbal. Great news. I assume this is normally the default behaviour and something odd is happening for me?

Ccave monster Steam definitely launched on dedicated graphics, and so did kerbal. Great news. ...

HikariKnight•6/30/24, 5:29 AM

yeah so steam has a setting in its .desktop.desktop file that requests the "other" gpu. but it doesnt work properly in switcheroo (the system that handles swithcing gpus)

HikariKnight•6/30/24, 5:30 AM

so we have a patched switcheroo where the behavior is fixed

Ccave monster Steam definitely launched on dedicated graphics, and so did kerbal. Great news. ...

Kyle Gospo•6/30/24, 5:30 AM

We ship a patched switcheroo, so what should be happening is your card is determined to be discreet and then selected as the default for things that request it like Steam

Kyle Gospo•6/30/24, 5:30 AM

For some reason though, as you pointed out, yours is unknown and not properly marked

Kyle Gospo•6/30/24, 5:30 AM

So that may be a bug in switcheroo?

HikariKnight•6/30/24, 5:30 AM

yep what kyle said

Kasher_CS•6/30/24, 5:30 AM

The card is obscure so that may be a reason

HikariKnight•6/30/24, 5:31 AM

@cave monster can you do lspci -nn | grep -P "(VGA compatible|3D) controller"lspci -nn | grep -P "(VGA compatible|3D) controller"

HHikariKnight @cave monster can you do `lspci -nn | grep -P "(VGA compatible|3D) controller"`

cave monsterOP•6/30/24, 5:31 AM

unit@ABSOLUTE-UNIT:~$ lspci -nn | grep -P "(VGA compatible|3D) controller"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation HD Graphics P630 [8086:591d] (rev 04)
01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GM206GLM [Quadro M2200 Mobile] [10de:1436] (rev a1)

HikariKnight•6/30/24, 5:32 AM

quadro and 3d controller

cave monsterOP•6/30/24, 5:32 AM

yeah, it's a bit obscure. This is a Lenovo P51, with a Xeon/ECC RAM and quadro

HikariKnight•6/30/24, 5:32 AM

so not detected as vga controller

HikariKnight•6/30/24, 5:32 AM

might be why

HikariKnight•6/30/24, 5:32 AM

only thing that stands out but cant say for sure

Kyle Gospo•6/30/24, 5:33 AM

The good news is you have the environment variables right there, so you can just copy those into a Steam desktop file

Kyle Gospo•6/30/24, 5:33 AM

And skip the whole switcheroo thing

Kyle Gospo•6/30/24, 5:33 AM

This may be something that needs to be patched in switcheroo, but given the nature of Quadro as less of a gaming card that might not happen

cave monsterOP•6/30/24, 5:33 AM

What does switcheroo use as its source of info on a particular card?

I'll definitely do that to make it work right for now. I don't know how easy it is to upstream the fix

KKyle Gospo This may be something that needs to be patched in switcheroo, but given the natu...

cave monsterOP•6/30/24, 5:34 AM

solidworks is my favourite video game, what do you mean?

Kasher_CS•6/30/24, 5:34 AM

Maya is a way better game tho

cave monsterOP•6/30/24, 5:36 AM

uhh, where does my .desktop file live for steam?

Pez•6/30/24, 5:37 AM

aararghhhhh i'mm milkshapiiingggf!!!!!

Ccave monster uhh, where does my .desktop file live for steam?

HikariKnight•6/30/24, 5:37 AM

cp /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/cp /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
then edit ~/.local/share/applications/steam.desktop~/.local/share/applications/steam.desktop in a text editor

PPez aararghhhhh i'mm milkshapiiingggf!!!!!

HikariKnight•6/30/24, 5:38 AM

thats a software name i havent heard in 2 centuries

Onihikage•6/30/24, 5:39 AM

Is there any way to tell for sure that a system update is happening? Noticing a bunch of network and disk usage with no easy way to tell which processes are using bandwidth or why my SSD is reading at 100% speed, except that baloo_file_extractor run by systemd is going full tilt on something

Onihikage•6/30/24, 5:40 AM

steady download of ~2mbps in the background is fine if I know what's doing it, but if I don't I start getting paranoid