So I just bought my new laptop and I'm thinking "Forget about Arch. I don't have time to waste now. Let's just install Debian and save time for important tasks I have. Why should I redo everything that is done, while I have enough undone jobs already."

2 days later, at last I managed to install nvidia hybrid drivers and get it to work successfully. Now I just have to find out the cause of the black screen I get when it recovers from suspend.

You disappointed me, my Son. To redeem yourself, you shall try to debug the code of 10yrs old programmer that doesn’t know the existence of loops, comments, indentation and functions. And btw, the code is 5k lignes long, because he found out about copy/paste.

Switch to arch

I also have these 2 problems 😅
How did u solve the nvidia one?

@IndoDev @Condor
After 2 days of struggling, I followed an inclusive combination of these two,
https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee
https://antergos.com/wiki/hardware/...
i installed bumblebee-nvidia from non-free debian repos, with primus at first, and it led to a bumblebee daemon controlling the gpus properly.

But by properly i mean i tried "optirun echo Hello" and confirmed that it turned the nvidia device on and off, and load/unloaded the nvidia module. It still mysteriously worked with no 3d program, which made it useless. So opposed to the debian tutorial, i tried virtualgl, instead of primus, as the acceleration bridge. ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/... could't find it on deb repos) And it works now!

@IndoDev @Condor
The remaining issues are: I have no gnome animation (which could be caused by something else i messed with), i can't suspend my device (in fact i can, it just won't wake up again), and "glxgears" actually has meaningfully more (more than two times) fps that "optirun -b virtualgl glxgears" (which shows it really differs, in its own way :) and makes me think i doesn't work at all). So it may not seem solved in some ways.

BTW i have Debian Stretch on Thinkpad E440B with GeForce 940MX.

@beleg well, that seems complecated, will try later.

N I also have suspend problem. Seems like debian has bad support on HP devices.

Btw thx for the detail!

if you don't need something tgat absolutely relies on the prop drivers, (steam) then get arch