I am running Fedora 31 on an HP Envy 17t laptop with a NVIDIA MX250 gpu. I have installed the NVIDIA driver downloaded from NVIDA, and it seems to have installed just fine. I have installed CUDA, as far as I can tell. I am trying to use the GPU rendering capabilities of Blender, a 3D modeling package. However, the package does not believe there is a CUDA compatible GPU installed. I *think* it's because I'm actually running the Intel VGA controller. So, if I'm right, my question is, how do I disable the Intel VGA controller (or not make it the default) so it uses the NVIDIA controller. Some more information: First, of course, graphics seems to work in general. Blender runs fine, but (for those of you who might use blender), when using the Cycles renderer, I can only render using the CPU. I'm using KDE as my desktop. There's nothing in my BIOS setup screen (when I hit ESC on bootup and then F10 for BIOS settings) about graphics controller or intel I have secure boot turned off. $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 5.6.8-200.fc31.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 29 19:10:01 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ grep '/usr/s\?bin' /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service ExecStart=/usr/bin/sddm $hwinfo | grep VGA 7: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) Model: "Intel VGA compatible controller" Attached to: #37 (VGA compatible controller) Attached to: #37 (VGA compatible controller) $hwinfo | grep "3D controller" E: ID_PCI_SUBCLASS_FROM_DATABASE=3D controller 22: PCI 200.0: 0302 3D controller Model: "nVidia 3D controller" $lshw ... *-pci description: Host bridge product: Intel Corporation vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 100 bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0 version: 0c width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: UHD Graphics vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 02 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:141 memory:b2000000-b2ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:5000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff ... *-pci:1 description: PCI bridge product: Intel Corporation vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1c.4 bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.4 version: f0 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=pcieport resources: irq:123 ioport:4000(size=4096) memory:b3000000-b3ffffff ioport:a0000000(size=301989888) *-display description: 3D controller product: GP108M [GeForce MX250] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 version: a1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 resources: irq:16 memory:b3000000-b3ffffff memory:a0000000-afffffff memory:b0000000-b1ffffff ioport:4000(size=128) $lsmod | grep nvidia nvidia_drm 53248 0 nvidia_modeset 1118208 1 nvidia_drm nvidia 20504576 4 nvidia_modeset ipmi_msghandler 118784 1 nvidia drm_kms_helper 237568 2 nvidia_drm,i915 drm 598016 13 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm,i915 The following is a little odd. This used to load, but while floundering about, I removed and reinstalled the Nvidia driver from NVIDIA. Now it won't load: $ nvidia-settings ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system $ nvidia-smi nvidia-smi Sat May 2 13:52:58 2020 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 440.82 Driver Version: 440.82 CUDA Version: 10.2 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0 GeForce MX250 Off | 00000000:02:00.0 Off | N/A | | N/A 48C P0 N/A / N/A | 0MiB / 4042MiB | 0% Default | +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: GPU Memory | | GPU PID Type Process name Usage | |=============================================================================| | No running processes found | I assume the tainting stuff below is because I'm using the driver downloaded from NVIDIA. $dmesg [ 3.106647] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: i915drmfb frame buffer device [ 3.824513] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 3.824525] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. [ 3.824526] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint [ 3.829796] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel [ 3.839347] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 239 [ 3.839692] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007) [ 4.039633] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 440.82 Wed Apr 1 20:04:33 UTC 2020 [ 4.090987] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 440.82 Wed Apr 1 19:41:29 UTC 2020 [ 4.094488] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000200] Loading driver [ 4.094490] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:02:00.0 on minor 1 |
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