did some more digging, found a blacklist for nouveau on my system, which
is necessary to load the switcharoo stuff. removed that, rebooted, now
nouveau loads at boot and nvidia-prime claims it runs correctly, but
it's still working incorrectly. I've narrowed it down though.

when nvidia-prime cats "OFF" to the switch on my system, it turns off my
integrated graphics, *not* the nvidia card:

0:IGD: :Off:0000:00:02.0
1:DIS-Audio: :Pwr:0000:01:00.1
2:DIS:+:Pwr:0000:01:00.0

what I need is the following:

echo IGD > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch

which then works correctly in enabling the integrated graphics and
disabling the nvidia:

0:IGD:+:Pwr:0000:00:02.0
1:DIS-Audio: :Off:0000:01:00.1
2:DIS: :Off:0000:01:00.0

however, doing this post-boot doesn't seem to work either. I can start
lightdm, but it just hangs, and looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, it's
still trying to load the nouveau driver instead of the intel driver.

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  nvidia-prime fails in "intel" mode on 18.04

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