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Switch between Intel/AMD GPU on 18.04
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You can find many answers to your question here in Ask Ubuntu:
- June 2018 - Intel/AMD Hybrid graphics Ubuntu 18.04
- August 2018 - Switch between Intel/AMD GPU on 18.04
- June 2016 - AMD-INTEL hybrid graphics on Ubuntu 16.04
You should review all of these links.
Additionally you will find many helpful links from other sources:
- Ubuntu Community AMDGPU-Driver
- Ubuntu Wiki Hybrid Graphics This introduces you to
switcheroowhich may be the most common method of switching graphics - Arch Linux PRIME documentation
All the links are too long to summarize in this answer.
Rather than using lspci -nn | grep VGA which will only show your Intel GPU and not your AMD GPU you should try an expanded search using something like this:
$ lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|Display|3D'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake Integrated Graphics (rev 06)
DeviceName: Onboard IGD
Subsystem: Dell Skylake Integrated Graphics
Kernel driver in use: i915
--
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Dell GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_384_drm, nvidia_384