Get my EGPU to work on opensuse tumbleweed with a framework 12th gen laptop

  • With the laptop on, plug it in to the usbc cable
  • load into a terminal and load the nvidia module sudo modprobe nvidia
  • Verify that gpu is working using nvidia-smi. This may require installing nvidia-compute-utils
  • Run prime-select nvidia
  • log out of desktop
  • start a terminal (ctrl alt f2)
  • login
  • run startx