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This is for when you want to stop Nvidia GPU in your Arch/Manjaro Linux completely
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I am using Dell G3 3579(Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050)
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This method will increase the battery's performance.
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Also, any lag and bootup issues will be fixed after doing this.
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This guide will help you automate Arch Linux's wiki script.
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You can download the same bash script from the Arch Wiki.
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You can use either of the methods. The recommended one is DisableNvidia.sh.
- After cloning, go to the downloaded folder. Open a terminal there.
- Enter the following in the terminal ::
chmod +x DisableNvidia.sh
- To run the script, enter this ::
./DisableNvidia.sh
- You will be asked to enter your password and once you enter it your Nvidia GPU will be disabled permanently .
- You should see something like this .
- After cloning the files, copy the StopNvidiaInArch.sh to /usr/bin/
- Now make this file executable
- To Make any file executable just do this chmod +x filename. In this case ::
chmod +x StopNvidiaInArch.sh
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Now we have to create and enable systemd service
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To do this just copy the file you have downloaded(Name of the file StopNvidiaInArch.service) to the directory /etc/systemd/system/
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Now you just have to enable the service on startup. To do that just enter the following commands ::
sudo systemctl enable StopNvidiaInArch.service
- Output for the above command will be :
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/StopNvidiaInArch.service → /etc/systemd/system/StopNvidiaInArch.service.
- To start it right now
sudo systemctl start StopNvidiaInArch.service
- To check the status of the service
sudo systemctl status StopNvidiaInArch.service
- Output Of status
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hybrid_graphics#Fully_Power_Down_Discrete_GPU
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mkottman/acpi_call/master/examples/turn_off_gpu.sh
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