I'm currently using Ubuntu 22.04 in my notebook Lenovo Gaming 15AH05, with no extra monitors. Recently I installed the Nvidia drivers and when I run the command 'nvidia-smi' this is the output:
+---------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 525.85.05 Driver Version: 525.85.05 CUDA Version: 12.0 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 45C P8 3W / 50W | 6MiB / 4096MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+---------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 2505 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 4MiB |
+---------------------------------------------+
I also created a pretty default xorg.conf file using the command 'nvidia-xconfig' creating this result:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 525.85.05
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
And this is the result of the command 'lspci | grep VGA':
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir (rev c6)
Now, when I access Settings > Details > Graphics it says: 'NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile] / RENOIR (renoir, LLVM 15.0.6, DRM 3.47, 5.19.0-35-generic)'
So I can tell it's being recognized, but when I access a videogame (Factorio in this case) and modify the sprite graphic quality to 'High' it says 'We've detected that your graphics card only has 512mb of memory...' (Even when I try to run it with Right click > Run with dedicated graphics card)
So I'm wondering if there's a way to properly set the xorg.conf file to make my dedicated graphics card the system's default graphics card, or perhaps a better approach to this situation that would serve as a better fix.