NVIDIA PRIME in Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10, and a call for testing (opens in new tab)

Ubuntu 18.04 marked the transition to a new, more granular, packaging of the NVIDIA drivers, which, unfortunately, combined with a logind, and with the previous migration from Lightdm to Gdm3, caused (Intel+NVIDIA) hybrid laptops to stop working the way they used to in Ubuntu 16.xx and older. The following are the main issues experienced by our users: An increase in power consumption when using the power saving profile (i.e. when the discrete GPU is off).The inability to switch between power ...