Re: AMD GPU not used by Fedora 31

[George N. White III]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 14:34, Sreyan Chakravarty  wrote:
> In that
> > case, I did a text mode install and then install the (Nvidia)
> > drivers for the discrete graphics to get around the GUI installer's
> > attempts to use bumblebee (linux optimus support).
>
> Could yo
> u tell me how you did a text mode install ? Via Kickstart ?

I used Ubuntu, but anaconda also does text mode.
> I didn't know that there was a way to start the Anaconda installer via
> command line.
>
> Please share.

https://www.dariawan.com/tutorials/linux/install-linux-fedora-text-mode/
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 5:13 PM George N. White III 
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 08:27, Sreyan Chakravarty 
> > wrote:
> > > > With Optimus, output of the hardware graphics processor is sent
> > > > to the frame buffer of the integrated graphics processor.
> > >
> > > I don't have Optimus as my laptop is old.
> >
> > Optimus goes back 10 years, but I don't know if it  was used with
> > removable graphics cards.    In any case, if you want to run everything
> > using the graphics card you are in the same pickle I had when the
> > software controlled switch failed in my 2010 Macbook Pro.   In that
> > case, I did a text mode install and then install the (Nvidia)
> > drivers for the discrete graphics to get around the GUI installer's
> > attempts to use bumblebee (linux optimus support).
> >
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