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I made this bad decision to buy pretty pricey laptop with nVidia card. Lenovo Legion Y520.
So yeah, have you heard about optimus technology and how much one can hate nvidia?

> Debian is working, nice.
> Let's try nvidia-driver.
> 48hours later: WOoooooah glxgears at 120 fps!
> Installed some fonts. "Could not load gpu driver". HDMI port stops working. Unable to repair. Entering despair.
> Surviving on dual-booted windows.

halp

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    @theKarlisK I am thinking about just trying anything to make that HDMI port work because I can't imagine coding on laptop's screen for longer time.
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    @theKarlisK Manjaro failed for me, lol.
    I run Windows on hardware and several Linux VMs on top of it. Best, and most stable setup I've had so far.
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    @theKarlisK
    It's wired to the secondary nVidia gpu. So if I googled everything right I would have to get the nvidia card powered and enable VGA passthrough on it so the primary gpu (intel) can see the hdmi port.

    It actually was working but it was a bit obscure, I've had to first run something on it (by optirun) and then call intel-virtual-output, then I could see the connected monitor in the manager. There's some probability it will work better on something else then Debian.
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