I reinstalled 16.04 and reinstalled nvidia drivers, and I was able to properly disengage the discrete gpu under prime profiles.
This issue seems to only affect 18.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-prime in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1757180 Title: nvidia-prime can't switch off the discrete GPU Status in nvidia-prime package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-settings package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-drivers-common package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: nvidia-prime used to be able to switch off and on NVIDIA dGPU. Now, a change in the nvidia packaging, and a change of behaviour in logind, broke this feature. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-prime/+bug/1757180/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp