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hansdegoedeIn this blog post I promised I would get back to people who want to use the nvidia driver on an optimus laptop.
The set of xserver patches I blogged about last time have landed upstream and in Fedora 25 (in xorg-x11-server 1.19.0-3 and newer), allowing the nvidia driver packages to drop a xorg.conf snippet which will make the driver atuomatically work on optimus setups.
The negativo17.org nvidia packages now are using this, so if you install these, then the nvidia driver should just work on your laptop.
Note that you should only install these drivers if you actually have a supported (new enough) nvidia GPU. These drivers replace the libGL implementation, so installing them on a system without a nvidia GPU will cause things to break. This will be fixed soon by switching to libglvnd as the official libGL provider and having both mesa and the nvidia driver provide "plugins" for libglvnd. I've actually just completed building a new enough libglvnd + libglvnd enabled mesa for rawhide, so rawhide users will have libglvnd starting tomorrow.
The set of xserver patches I blogged about last time have landed upstream and in Fedora 25 (in xorg-x11-server 1.19.0-3 and newer), allowing the nvidia driver packages to drop a xorg.conf snippet which will make the driver atuomatically work on optimus setups.
The negativo17.org nvidia packages now are using this, so if you install these, then the nvidia driver should just work on your laptop.
Note that you should only install these drivers if you actually have a supported (new enough) nvidia GPU. These drivers replace the libGL implementation, so installing them on a system without a nvidia GPU will cause things to break. This will be fixed soon by switching to libglvnd as the official libGL provider and having both mesa and the nvidia driver provide "plugins" for libglvnd. I've actually just completed building a new enough libglvnd + libglvnd enabled mesa for rawhide, so rawhide users will have libglvnd starting tomorrow.
