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How to disable discrete GPU using NVIDIA drivers?

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http://askubuntu.com – I have a DELL studio XPS 13 (aka 1340) as of 12.04 most things run smoothly out of the box, but I have some power draining and warmness issues (if not to be called terrible heat issues) The system came with a NVIDIA GeForce 9500M (which has Hybrid SLI) and it shows up in "lspci" as these 2 cards 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G98 [GeForce 9200M GS] (rev a1) 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400M G] (rev b1) I had to install nvidia-current over noveau driver 'cause noveau does freeze the system after suspension. By installing nvidia-c (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 08/06/2012 – Made popular on 08/06/2012

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Code: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] (rev a1) I have tried the hardware drivers gui with ubuntu, same result (see below) I have tried manual install of 185 driver, same result I have tried the installer and driver from nvidia.com, same result

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I've got a quite old NVIDIA graphic card and I with installed restricted drivers from Settings panel (as also shown in this thread).

➜ ~ lspci 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce 9400 GT] (rev a1)

I tried a lot of them: version 173-update, current, beta, but the only one that can run unity-2d it's current-update. That's Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64bit.

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my laptop has nvidia GT540m yesterday i install nvidia-current after updating fromsudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates then i write sudo nvidia-xconfig and then reboot my desktop visual effect changes and it look good like nvidia is working but still glx i not working and nvidia-setting tells me that You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver my dkms status is nvidia-current,

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lshw -c display:

*-display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller