On 17/03/2021 17:14, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
hello everyone, I have just installed Fedora 33 workstation on my laptop. I have never had an additional graphics card on a pc and want some guidance as to what I am supposed to do. This is a Dell XPS 9550, which has the integrated Intel HD Graphics 530, and the discrete NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M. When will the laptop be using the NVIDIA card? Is this graphics card now working on my new installation? Regarding installation of drivers: Does Fedora already carry a default driver for this graphics card? Do I need to install a driver? I have noticed there is a specific repository for NVIDIA graphics cards drivers (rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver), which provides the Nouveau driver. Should I install this repository and a specific package contained in it? Does NVIDIA provide another driver for this card in linux? Would this be recommended over the open source alternative for any reason?
thanks very much,
I don't have direct experience of dual-graphic systems, but this would be a good starting point:
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA
The usual reason for using the rpmfusion packages is that they work,
HTH
John P