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Stefano Partida of SPXLabs

The Uncast Show

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Red Hat Optimus Drivers and the Black Screen Problem?

Red Hat apparently doesn't support Nvidia Optimus or maybe 12th generation Intel chips, so there's this weird communication error between the CPU and the D GPU. So I guess there's a communication error and neither one will do a display out because they're kind of fighting of which one should do the display out. And obviously this has to do with graphics switching. If you install the Nvidia drivers, it just gives you a black screen. There's some things you have to do in Red Hat to enable the CPU to work properly with the kernel or something like that. It's weird. Like little problems pop up like that all the time. In fact, with PopOS the other day, I

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