eGPUs on Linux – Unleashing External Graphics Power
I spent some time, ok 16 hours+ working on getting my first eGPU to work on Linux, my goal was to be able to use both graphics processors (NViDIA eGPU and Intel Meteor-Lake GPU) to work together on Linux. I started with Fedora KDE , failed….tried Kubuntu, failed again and finally tried EndeavourOS…which also failed….why? After 16 hours I gave up on X.org and went over to Wayland
by installing the wayland session package on EndeavourOS (KDE). And…here are my results:
AI Thumbnail: is a typical use for eGPU’s as a co-processor for editing videos, but of course there are many many many ways to use an GPU today
Some links mentioned here:
NVIDIA Linux Driver Docs: https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/465.27/README/installationandconfiguration.html
egpu-switcher: https://github.com/hertg/egpu-switcher/releases
gswitch: https://github.com/karli-sjoberg/gswitch
Chapters
00:00 – Intro
00:31 – eGPU What are they?
03:13 – What Kinds of eGPUs are there?
05:41 – Why use an eGPU?
07:42 – Getting the eGPU to work
19:54 – Lessons Learned
22:37 – Drawbacks of an eGPU
24:05 – eGPU Future on Linux
26:55 – Final Thoughts
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