Got a new lap top ( Ryzen 5 5600H + RTX 3060 ) it's working fine except that randomly during desktop work the nvidia card will go into maximum effort mode and spin the fans to max for a few minutes.

So I enable "Hybrid graphics" in bios, booting up Mint again I get;

• the external monitor is no longer getting a signal


• cinamon is warning me of misbehaving spices


• I'm being told of missing drivers (nvidia 470 is still installed though)


• Nvidia settings has no info on the Xserver and *only* show the external display under GPU 0


• fans are running full tilt

switching to 'on demand' changed nothing.

Switching bios back to 'dedicated graphics' everything is back to normal.


Before I start trying reinstalling graphics drivers, etc - can somebody please tell me if this is something I can expect to get to work. or if it falls into the 'to few people use this for any effort to be spend making it usable' category.

does a guide exists for setting it up?

Last edited by Guppy on 9 November 2021 at 11:37 am UTC