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Bazzite•11mo ago•
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Intel iGPU + NVIDIA setup - VAAPI & KDE

I have an Intel iGPU (i9-13900k, i915/xe) and an NVIDIA GPU (RTX 4090, nvidia-open) and I want to somehow get hardware accelerated video decoding/encoding to work on Chromium as that's what Discord uses.. would also allow Zoom to be somewhat more usable on the system.

So I have 2 question:
1. Can I have a situation where the iGPU only exists for the sake of VAAPI? I'm interested in getting video encoding/decoding working with VAAPI (it should utilize QuickSync Video) while other usage e.g. games/CUDA/Tensor will use my NVIDIA card?
2. I noticed that if I don't add
module_blacklist=i915,xe
module_blacklist=i915,xe
to kargs, KDE Plasma takes like 30 seconds until the initial login. I haven't noticed any other downsides. Should be I concerned? Is it better to bkaclist
i915,xe
i915,xe
or let them run even though I have a dedicated GPU?
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