#ASUS TUF A17 on Arch (driver and gpu bs)

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zenith cove
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I followed this guide (I saw nothing about TUFs, just about ROGs so idk) to install and use ASUS drivers and be able to switch from Integrated to Hybrid to dGPU only, properly. So I now use linux-g4 as my kernel.

Before hand, games ran with proton displayed the possibility of using NVIDIA DLSS, now it doesn't.
glxinfo only displays information about my integrated gpu.

$ glxinfo | grep "Device:"
    Device: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics (radeonsi, phoenix, LLVM 20.1.8, DRM 3.63, 6.15.6-arch1-1.1-g14) (0x15bf)

nvidia-smi tells me that the driver is not running either

$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

And using either $ prime-run [command] or $ switcherooctl launch [command] doesn't fix anything (except that using prime-run makes some applications crash, probably while trying to use my gpu if for some reason the driver ain't running)

To sum up, I may have fucked up but I'm not sure where at all ;-;
Tell me if you need more info, but I'd like to make this work so in the future I can do it again and properly

$ uname -a
Linux iusearchbtw 6.15.6-arch1-1.1-g14 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:59:01 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
zenith cove
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I'm back to regular linux and now it uses my NVIDIA again...

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F Asus ig