Firefox sticks do AMD iGPU, refuses to use Nvidia dGPU

[t0xic0der (আকাশদীপ ধর)]

Hi @ocosta,

@ocosta

Yes, I did. But even though it reported success, it was not clear to me if it is supposed to work with Wayland or with X11 only.

It is supposed to work with X11 only. To that extent, when that setting is applied - the Wayland option is removed to note the fact that the PRIME configuration is not supported on it^[1].

@ocosta

I also tried this, but Firefox was unable to render properly, I could only see the windows’ frames, as if they were completely transparent. I will do some more testing, removing some environment variables changes I’ve made to see if I can get any further.

This is interesting. Can you try doing this with any other application (like a videogame or an emulator) that can report what graphics device is made use of? It would be helpful to confirm if at all that context menu option is indeed taking effect to select your desired device of choice.

Thanks for confirming that it is indeed a laptop that you are using.

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1. Or at least, it used to be like that back in Fedora Linux when I tried back in the day. I am not sure if things have changed recently as I no longer have a laptop with a dedicated NVIDIA discrete GPU to test things on. ↩︎