On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 22:20 +0000, Anthony F McInerney wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 22:16, Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 2/21/20 9:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > For several years I've been using a Windows VM with passthrough
> > > graphics as a gaming platform. It works pretty well, but ties up
> > > machine resources even when idle, so I'm now experimenting with Valve's
> > > Linux version of Steam with the Proton additions to the Wine libraries.
> > > I've disabled the VM, installed the latest proprietary Nvidia drivers,
> > > modified grub appropriately and rebooted. The Nvidia modules are
> > > loaded. The nvidia-settings command shows the GPU.
> > > 
> > > However when I run games under Steam, they are using the internal Intel
> > > GPU, making this configuration essentially unusable for AAA gaming
> > > (i.e. games will start but are unplayably slow). I can find no
> > > documentation on how to change this (whether via a global Steam option
> > > or even individually for each game).
> > 
> > I'm not sure how you expect this to work.  I assume you have another
> > monitor connected to the nvidia card.  But if you're running steam from
> > your regular desktop, the games are going to use the current display
> > which is your Intel one.  If you can get your desktop to display across
> > both video cards, then you could probably run steam on the display you
> > want, but I don't know if that configuration is even supported by Xorg
> > or Wayland.
> > 
> > I wanted to add on top of this, it's more like the old multihead setup's.
> That nothing supports anymore.
> Along with the Wayland vs Xorg pain.
> 
> Generally, when you plug in an external gpu, the igpu is disabled. That's
> the simplest way around all this.

Except that it isn't, because they are both connected (see my answer to
Samuel). That's the problem. Maybe I should just disconnect the video
cable from the IGP?

poc
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