On 3/26/21 5:00 PM, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021, at 4:33 PM, George N. White III wrote:
"sudo lshw -c video" or "sudo lspci -k | grep -A 4 -i 'VGA'" should show the driver used with each graphics device.
Running this command is only listed my integrated graphics card: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard IGD Subsystem: Dell XPS 15 9550 Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915
Try "lspci -k | grep -A 4 -i 'nvidia'"
Fedora uses the "nouveau" driver for NVIDIA devices. It is based on reverse engineering, so is not as capable as the NVIDIA drivers, which you can get from rpmfusion.
Does the Nouveau driver come preinstalled in F33 ? I can see that the xorg-x11-drv-nouveau package is installed. I can see that there are some messages related to nouveau at startup (some regarding FAULTs).
[ 23.459057] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Enabling HDA controller [ 23.748533] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO read of 00000000 FAULT at 619444 [ IBUS ]
The nouveau driver is included with the kernel, those messages are from that driver.
If nouveau is adequate for your purposes you should consider continuing to use it but
So I will ask the previous question again. Does this driver come preinstalled? Or do I need to activate these Third Party Repositories offered by the Gnome Software app (rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver.repo)? Once I activate this repository, do I need to install a specific package for my graphics card?
That repo is for the proprietary NVidia kernel module and yes, you'll have to install a particular package and I don't know which one for sure, but you could try "akmod-nvidia".