mint 18.3 x64. laptop /w hybrid. No Nvidia videocard found.

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mint 18.3 x64. laptop /w hybrid. No Nvidia videocard found.

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Hello to everyone, i have surface book(1 gen) with hybrid of intel hd520 + nvidia geforce 965m.
Problem is that mint dont see nvidia as a device.

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# lspci | grep controller
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] (rev 07)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21)
00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 21)
00:15.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 21)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 (rev 21)
00:16.4 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d3e (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21)
02:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM951/PM951 (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88W8897 [AVASTAR] 802.11ac Wireless
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# inxi -xG
Graphics:  Card: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: X.org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root
and inxi -Fxz output:

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# inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: breakpoint Kernel: 4.10.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
           Desktop: MATE 1.18.0 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3)
           Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine:   System: Microsoft product: Surface Book v: D:0B:14F:1C:03P:38
           Mobo: Microsoft model: Surface Book
           Bios: Microsoft v: 90.1427.768 date: 12/19/2016
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i7-6600U (-HT-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 11232
           clock speeds: max: 3400 MHz 1: 499 MHz 2: 499 MHz 3: 493 MHz
           4: 499 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: X.org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio:     Card Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.0-38-generic
Network:   Card-1: Marvell 88W8897 [AVASTAR] 802.11ac Wireless
           driver: mwifiex_pcie v: 1.0 bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Atheros AR9271 802.11n usb-ID: 001-008
           IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
Drives:    HDD Total Size: NA (-) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: N/A size: 512.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 80G used: 11G (15%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 16.72GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0C mobo: 0.0C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 192 Uptime: 24 min Memory: 1273.2/15972.0MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35 

interesting thing about surface book is that 965m is that intel video is located in the display part(touchpad part) and nvidia is in the detached keyboard part. im not familiar with these hardware relations in surface book, but could it be the problem?
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