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How do I remove Bumblebee and use PRIME, or something like it?
burningserenity Aug 18, 2017
Hello GOL members! Short time reader, first time poster.

Anyway, I recently switched from Ubuntu to Deep in, which is based on Debian Did nowadays, and I really miss PRIME.

Bumblebee came with the distro when I installed. I tried removing it and setting up Optimus as per the Debian tutorial, but I could only get X to render a black screen, so I reverted my changes.

Does PRIME even work on non-Ubuntu Debian distros? Otherwise, is there another solution that will let me use the NVIDIA card full-time and thus have up-to-date drivers, Vulkan, etc?
s8as8a Aug 18, 2017
Hello. :)

Debian sid should have a recent version of the package "nvidia-driver" (without the quotes), so just installing that should allow you to use your NVIDIA card to its full potential, without the dynamic graphics switching, though.

Having said that, does the following help you set up PRIME successfully?:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/320384/how-to-install-nvidia-driver-on-debian-and-switch-between-drivers/320397#320397
burningserenity Aug 22, 2017
Quoting: s8as8aHello. :)

Debian sid should have a recent version of the package "nvidia-driver" (without the quotes), so just installing that should allow you to use your NVIDIA card to its full potential, without the dynamic graphics switching, though.

Having said that, does the following help you set up PRIME successfully?:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/320384/how-to-install-nvidia-driver-on-debian-and-switch-between-drivers/320397#320397

Sorry it took me so long to respond. I'm new here, and didn't realize I don't get notifications of forum posts :)

Anyway, I don't want to just add that repository because, despite being based on it, Deepin differs a lot from Debian Sid, so I'm afraid apt will try to update my system files with packages from that repo. I'm pretty sure there's a way to limit repo queries to specific packages, though, and I think I saw something about it on the Deepin forums. I'll try it and post what happens.
burningserenity Aug 23, 2017
I managed to add the actual Debian Sid repos, and set their priority to lower than the Deepin repos so I have to explicitly specify which packages to install from the former. I upgraded my NVIDIA driver, but when I try to configure X via the nvidia-xconfig command, startx fails with the error that it can't find any displays. I then have to delete xorg.conf to make X work again.
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