[SOLVED] Laptop dedicated GPU temp fix!

I have struggled over the past years to setup bumblebee on my laptop. The Nvidia dedicated card is always on and having nomodeset or bumblebee just seems to make the laptop unbootable. This is because the kernel module cannot unplug the nvidia card from pci. I´ve tried many different OS´s also.

I found a temporary fix!! Can´t believe I didn´t think of this before but just by using

echo 'auto' > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:01\:00.0/power/control

I can turn the GPU off without the kernel shouting or crashing at me. Although I wouldn´t recommend having this set perminantly for boot since that causes the same issue to begin with. Once I have my enviroment set I just perform this command and then the graphics card is off. This saves my battery life so much wasted energy, down from 22Wh to 9Wh!!

Btw just make sure the graphics card is on 01:00.0 with \`\`\`lspci\`\`\` command

Edit: spelling

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Venturing out – Kai Uwe's Blog
https://blog.broulik.de/2020/01/venturing-out/

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SQL in the Shell: Relational shell programming
http://matt.might.net/articles/sql-in-the-shell/

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TLDR pages: Simplified, community-driven man pages
https://tldr.sh/

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My last 24 hours with the Pinebook Pro - Review, tips.
https://haydenjames.io/pinebook-pro-my-first-impressions-and-setup-tips/

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distri: 20x faster initramfs (initrd) from scratch
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2020-01-21-initramfs-from-scratch-golang/

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CASP: Create A Secure Password in bash
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Linux Had Some Representation at Washington State Right to Repair Hearings

Obviously the right to repair thing is a huge issue, and us Linuxers generally tend to be very in favor of it. Louis Rossman just testified in Washington, and there were two different Linuxy people on the panel, both in favor of the right to repair bill. One of them was from Rossman Group, he held up a cloud computing device he had just demoed at System 76 (System 76 getting mentioned at state congressional hearings, crazy), and one of the other panelists was a cybersecurity expert and Linux sysadmin. Here's the video if anyone wants to watch it, Louis speaks at 15 minute mark, and the panel with both the Linux people starts at 32:30. The first and third panels are in support, second panel is against: [https://youtu.be/FBR8IvXVwsE](https://youtu.be/FBR8IvXVwsE)

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Learn to read Unix style permissions in about 1 minute.
https://reallyneat.solutions/the-over-simplified-guide-to-reading-linux-permissions-youve-been-looking-for/

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Sway 1.4 released with support for VNC and (partial support) for MATE panel
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.4

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Help, can't find windows partition on XFCE Mint 19.2

My coworker took the company laptop and installed mint on it. Boss needs his tax information, I'm at a loss.

Laptop is an hp pavilion that was running windows 10 originally. Now when you turn it on it boots straight into linux. I went into the boot manager and tried to see why it wasn't giving me a windows boot option but couldn't find anything. Legacy boot is off and protocol is to boot from internal OS list.

Then I used root terminal to list partitions, there are 2, SDA1 and SDA2 at 500MB and 490GB respective.

I then used partition viewer to visualize the two partitions and confirm they both exist, they're both set to mount at startup and SDA1 is set to mount at /BOOT/EFI

I then found this folder and couldn't access it so I installed Nautilus and forced it open, inside is EFI, Ubuntu and a few executables. Inside the EFI folder is just two files BOOT64 and fxBOOT64 or something along those lines. Neither has much information or data.

Nautilus at top level only shows a single hard drive at 490GB with 453 free.

At this point I'm thinking that he accidentally nuked windows and that all the information is gone. I'm very new to computers and not very good at them so I could really use your help with this. Thanks in advance for any help.

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icons in a lightweight desktop

let's say i wanna use openbox or icewm....what can i do to have desktop icons automatically? im sick of using idesktop where i have to create a .lnk file every time i install osmething

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Ubuntu 20.04 drops Amazon web app
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/1.443

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Somebody help me find a good Nintendo64 emulator for Ubuntu

I'm trying to find a good emulator for play my favorite N64 games on my ubuntu notebook but I only have found Mupen until now and it looks like a abandoned project, it doesn't have any update in years. Do you guys know any other option for me to play my games besides Mupen64?

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What is GTK3's purpose, exactly?

Having tried a few different DEs, there's one single toolkit that's always giving me issues. It's GTK3.

See, with old MATE, everything was fine. I could lift a theme from 2005 off of Gnome Looks, install it, and it would work fine.

With GTK3, it's a complete crap shoot. GTK3 is a total rewrite, so GTK2 themes just don't work. Ok, fine, I get it, it's a rewrite. It has no support for 10+ years of themes, but ok, whatever.

What I found is that even GTK3 themes tend to be a crapshoot on whether they work or not. Because they just put out updates all the time so a GTK3 theme that works on one version may be totally broken on another to the point of unusability and would need to be entirely remade to work.

And to top it all off, it runs worse than GTK2. It doesn't look that noticeably different, but it runs like complete ass. GTK3 MATE runs almost as bad as GNOME so you may as well just use GNOME.

So I don't get it. GTK3, in almost every way I can think of, is worse than GTK2.

So why, exactly, does it exist, when it's a literal step down? And why did people start moving their applications to GTK3?

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Why is it called windows subsystem for Linux (wsl)?

Why is it called windows subsystem for Linux (wsl),
when the subsystem is Linux which is running over windows?

And why doesn't Linux have one?

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booting kali linux from live usb on chromebook

I has a question about my chromebook I have a live usb with kali linux lite on it and i booted from usb i don't know which option to pick. I don't want to remove chrome OS, just boot and install everything onto the 15 gb usb drive:

[wat i got](https://preview.redd.it/pppnlms50hc41.png?width=643&format=png&auto=webp&s=3584f965e206aaebcaa7fdbf8be6f3456a4cecf0)

BTW i copied this from a discord post i made so sorry, and sorry again if this question doesn't belong here.

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Can anyone tell me how to run mac os catalina in qemu in arch linux??

This is my first time trying a VM I am very scared

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MonoDevelop Themes Available

If anyone is interested I have a decent amount of theme files available for MonoDevelop at my [GitHub Page](https://github.com/CJPrindle/MonoDevelop-Themes). It contains both .vssettings and .json files.

Feel free to add or modify as desired.

I wish I could remember where I got the themes I didn't create myself so I could give credit where credit is due but I figured I'd pay forward to spread the love.

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What made you move to Linux?

Yesterday I decided to move to Manjaro. I've been using Manjaro for some weeks on an older laptop, and I'm amazed with the experience. I've been able to solve any problems found so far looking at the wiki or forums, so thank you, community out there!

My main reason to (finally) move was a problem with my Bluetooth headset on windows. After the last system update, I haven't been able to make them work again. Thus I missed the possibilities of fixing things myself that linux offered.

So, what was your reason?

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Lightweight raster drawing program

I only need program that support pen pressure and layers nothing else. any recommendation? please don't say krita / gimp they're bloated.

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