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Universal Blue•12mo ago
Fennrys

Computer Generally Suffers Under Linux. Likely a Hybrid Graphics Issue

Laptop Model: Thinkpad P16V Gen 1

CPU/Integrated Graphics: AMD Ryzen Pro 7 w/ Radeon 780M Graphics

DGPU: Nvidia RTX A1000

Distro: Bazzite 41

Desktop Environment: KDE

At this point I have been on the Linux Grind for several months now. I have tried Fedora, Pop OS, Pika, Nobara, Ubuntu, Mint and probably even a few I can't remember right now. Regardless of how customized or optimized the OS is out of the box this laptop has always suffered from rainbowy graphical glitches, and wildly swingy performance between distros that never seems to make any sense. I have tried Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and Arch based OS-es and they've all suffered from some kind of general incompatability with my DGPU that renders games varying levels of playable to unplayable and I can't figure out any kind of pattern or fixes. Right now in my system info it lists only the integrated graphics and I'm beginning to think this might have something to do with the computer never properly using the DGPU, even though it's set to Hybrid in the SUPERGFX plasmoid. I am desperate for any kind of advice that will make this thing work properly. Please if anyone can help I dread the day I'm forced to return to windows, because If something doesn't change that day is close at hand.

Readout of 
sudo lspci -k | grep -A 2 -i "VGA"


Error reading /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:08.3/label: Operation not permitted
c6:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Phoenix1 (rev d4)
`Subsystem: Lenovo Device 231d`
`Kernel driver in use: amdgpu



Readout of 
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda


Note: This system is image (rpm-ostree) based.
Checking out tree 08c134c... done
Enabled rpm-md repositories: copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:ilyaz:LACT copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:rodoma92:kde-cdemu-manager copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:rodoma92:rmlint copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:rok:cdemu updates fedora updates-archive
Updating metadata for 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:ilyaz:LACT'... done
Updating metadata for 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:rodoma92:kde-cdemu-manager'... done
Updating metadata for 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:rodoma92:rmlint'... done
Updating metadata for 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:rok:cdemu'... done
Updating metadata for 'updates'... done
Updating metadata for 'fedora'... done
Updating metadata for 'updates-archive'... done
Importing rpm-md... done
rpm-md repo 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:ilyaz:LACT'; generated: 2024-11-29T09:45:25Z solvables: 12
rpm-md repo 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:rodoma92:kde-cdemu-manager'; generated: 2024-10-29T12:13:12Z solvables: 16
rpm-md repo 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:rodoma92:rmlint'; generated: 2024-10-29T12:31:09Z solvables: 4
rpm-md repo 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:rok:cdemu'; generated: 2024-10-21T13:15:21Z solvables: 23
rpm-md repo 'updates'; generated: 2025-01-08T02:01:51Z solvables: 16271
rpm-md repo 'fedora'; generated: 2024-10-24T13:55:59Z solvables: 76624
rpm-md repo 'updates-archive'; generated: 2025-01-09T02:17:47Z solvables: 21236
error: Packages not found: akmod-nvidia, xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda


Readout of 
prime-select query

command not found


the options available in SUPERGFX are only Hyrbrid and Integrated. NvidiaNoModeSet and VFIO are both disabled

Readout of 
sudo lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 "vga\|3d"

[sudo] password for REDACTED:                
pcilib: Error reading /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:08.3/label: Operation not permitted
01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GA107GLM [RTX A1000 6GB Laptop GPU] [10de:25bc] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:231d]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
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c6:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Phoenix1 [1002:15bf] (rev d4)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:231d]
Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
Kernel modules: amdgpu
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