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Last active December 27, 2018 16:34
Displaying on the nvidia GPU to access outside ports (HDMI + DP) on a Lenovo P50/P70

See original, badly formatted version here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GnyBE1xc4qx3EF-IcUOwr7d9D8Npzy63Pwj-joOw86o

Displaying on the nvidia GPU to access outside ports (HDMI + DP)

Kernel modesetting and automatic driver power management (kernel >= 4.8)[b]

While kernel modesetting (KMS) isn’t required, on recent debian, the intel driver requires KMS. You can also avoid having to use the nouveau xorg driver altogether (as in remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau), and let Xorg talk to the nouveau kernel driver. You will want both kernel driver modules to run with modesetting: