Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2023, Ahmad Nouralizadeh wrote:

> The laptop model is `Asus N501JW` running `Ubuntu 18.04`. The discrete GPU is `GeForce GTX 960M`.
> The link below says that by default the system uses `Intel HD graphics` (the iGPU) and using the discrete GPU requires a proprietary driver! Does this mean that having `nouveau` is not enough?

I don't have that particular card, but I think noveau should work with it.
And if you really need to you can install NVidia drivers.

However, you might want to upgrade Ubuntu - the latest LTS release is 
22.04.

Many tools are improved, including perf and Xorg.

best

Vladimir Dergachev

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> https://askubuntu.com/a/766282/926952
> 
> It seems that I was wrong and only one GPU is being used?!
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