Saturday, July 20, 2019

Parallel use of Intel and Nvidia (eGPU) driver / Not Hybrid!

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 on a Lenovo X220 notebook with onboard Intel graphics.



I purchased a so called external PCIe GPU (GeForce GTX 560 Ti) which is connected via the card slot of my laptop.



Now I want to switch to the Nvidia driver on boot when the eGPU is connected. If it is not, I want to switch back to the intel driver.




I've written a little script doing the job: It places the nvidia xorg.conf on startup (on egpu) or removes it (on intel).



The problem is that the nvidia driver changes some libraries (and maybe more) so I can't use the intel driver. The following error message occurs in xorg.log:



(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)


My question is: Does anybody know how to switch back to the intel driver without completely removing the nvidia driver? Do I have to change some symlinks or something like this?

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