#Bad GTX 1050 Driver

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tulip locust
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my laptop has a GTX 1050 as a dedicated GPU with Intel HD Graphics as an iGPU.
when playing games the laptop defaults to the iGPU and i can't get it to use the dedicated GPU no matter what i do, i used PRIME Profile Management utility to force the laptop to use the dedicated GPU for all apps, and now the sound doesn't work.
i think the NVIDIA drivers that come with VanillaOS are bad, but i can't figure out how to manually install the driver package from NVIDIA

proper lark
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Can you run abroot status and post the output here?

tulip locust
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ABRoot Partitions:
• Present: vos-b ✓
• Future: vos-a

Loaded Configuration: /etc/abroot/abroot.json

Device Specifications:
• CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
• GPU: [Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 (rev 04)]
• Memory: 7838 MB

ABImage:
• Digest: 3f13bafb470c6c510e362f42a1ad16e0154c15e5a431a0c33371effe95d3bab5
• Timestamp: 2025-05-18 20:07:17
• Image: ghcr.io/vanilla-os/nvidia:main

Kernel Arguments: quiet splash bgrt_disable $vt_handoff lsm=integrity

Packages:
• Added:
• Removed:
• Unstaged:

Package agreement: false

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the NVIDIA gpu doesn't even show up on abroot status for some reason, but it shows up on the system monitor

proper lark
tulip locust
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it could also be that Lenovo did some weird stuff and i also need to get their drivers to work, but idk

proper lark
# tulip locust my laptop has a GTX 1050 as a dedicated GPU with Intel HD Graphics as an iGPU. w...

You can try to install the "alternate" NVIDIA image with which will install the latest drivers from the NVIDIA repos.
Run abroot config-editor and change the line where it says

    "name": "vanilla-os/nvidia",

to

    "name": "vanilla-os/nvidia-exp",
``` to switch to the NVIDIA experimental image. This image uses drivers straight from NVIDIA's repos instead of the ones from the Debian repo (which are just older, but considered "stable" by Debian)
tulip locust
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ima try that and see what happens brb

proper lark
tulip locust
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now the dedicated GPU shows up but i still have no sound

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nvm i lied, sound works too