How to use only the Nvidia GPU?

Question

I have a laptop with an integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 and a dedicated GPU from Nvidia. Since the Intel HD Graphisc is crashing all the time, how can I switch only on the Nvidia GPU and never use the Intel one, not even simultaneously?

Now I have Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 installed. When I boot from windows 7 with all the updates installed I have the same problem and I get this error message: Display driver stopped responding and has recovered.

Thank you very much!

Solution

I think it is not Intel adapter crashing, but the problem is with the open source Nvidia driver.

Install the correct driver by

sudo apt-get install nvidia-352

Reboot and switch to Nvidia

sudo prime-select nvidia

Then log off and on.

But I suspect that Intel will work OK too.

Comments

[Ashu]

You can refer to this thread. i had a similar problem and fixed it as mentioned in that thread.

[Daniel]

ok, thank you for your time. i did it, i hope it will work

[Pilot6]

That may really be a hardware problem.

[Daniel]

I did + restart. It happens when I open for example multiple tabs on chrome or youtube.

[Daniel]

I did so, but still have problems, i get grey screens

[Daniel]

when I open for example multiple youtube videos tabs or virtual machine etc