Unable to get Nvidia Optimus working

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I have installed the Nvidia drivers successfully on my laptop and they seem to be working well. However, I wanted the abitiliy to switch to the integrated AMD graphics on the Ryzen so I installed OptimusUI.

When I try to open the application I get the error: “prime-select not found…”

So… I followed the instructions posted on this thread. Namely I did the following:

$ sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core -y
$ sudo dnf copr enable t0xic0der/nvidia-auto-installer-for-fedora -y
$ sudo dnf install nvautoinstall -y

then

$ sudo dnf update --refresh

Everything was fine until the last step:

$ sudo nvautoinstall primec

I get the error:

[ ✗ ] RPM Fusion repository for Proprietary NVIDIA Driver was not detected
      Please try executing `nvautoinstall rpmadd` with elevated privileges before this

Then executing nvautoinstall rpmadd results in a series of 404 errors followed by:

Failed to download files
 Librepo error: Status code: 404 for https://rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release- (IP: 212.129.31.198)
[ ✗ ] RPM Fusion NVIDIA repository could not be enabled
      Please try executing `dnf update` with elevated privileges before this

Executing dnf update and then repeating the same had no effect. I got the same errors.

I cannot seem to get prime-select installed.

I would appreciate any help.

2

Why do you need to uses some lame copr repo to install the rpmfusion driver?

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA?highlight=(\bCategoryHowto\b)

3

Hi Leigh, thanks for the response.

Maybe I am misunderstanding something but the link you sent discusses the driver installation. I have the driver installed and working. It is only prime-select that I am unable to install.

Thanks

4

The copr is using a non-existent url, I doubt it ever worked.
We have never used that url for our release files.

https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

5

The toxicoder copr repo used to work and did what a manual install does, but has not been updated for some time.

@alkhater
There is a package installed (by default) that manages switching between the GPUs easily.
I believe the package is switcheroo-control and the command for it is switcherooctl but do not use it myself.

Prime-select is not required for most.

6

Cinnamon and gnome have builtin switcheroo support for launching apps using the dedicated gpu.

So it relied on the rpmfusion repos being already installed on the system

7

Thank you all for your help. I had no idea about switcheroo and found it already installed.

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Yes, and seems to have been created about the time or just before the rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver repo was created and began to be included in the fedora first-boot stage.