On Wed, Mar 17, 2021, at 4:33 PM, George N. White III wrote: > You have "hybrid graphics": > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hybrid_graphics. For laptops > there is usually a video switch that connects the "active" graphics > device to the display, and can > switch from discrete to integrated graphics to save power. As the > article notes, linux support is > "experimental", especially if you use wayland. Thank you George. Ok. So this tells me I should probably not play around a lot with this because it is not fully supported anyway. > "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 > 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 ] [ 24.777227] Lockdown: systemd-logind: hibernation is restricted; see man kernel_lockdown.7 [ 24.993183] rfkill: input handler disabled [ 5632.296051] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Enabling HDA controller [ 5632.436013] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO read of 00000000 FAULT at 619444 [ IBUS ] [ 5632.441268] rfkill: input handler enabled [ 5633.370231] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 5633.370238] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 5633.370286] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 [ 5633.787447] Lockdown: systemd-logind: hibernation is restricted; see man kernel_lockdown.7 [ 5634.167385] rfkill: input handler disabled [ 5634.853782] Lockdown: fwupd: /dev/mem,kmem,port is restricted; see man kernel_lockdown.7 [ 6210.389089] nf_conntrack: default automatic helper assignment has been turned off for security reasons and CT-based firewall rule not found. Use the iptables CT target to attach helpers instead. [ 6580.500370] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Enabling HDA controller [ 6580.640022] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO read of 00000000 FAULT at 619444 [ IBUS ] > 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? > > Does NVIDIA provide another driver for this card in linux? Would this be recommended over the open source alternative for any reason? > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PRIME has a good description of the > linux support for hybrid graphics with X11. I dont understand how this answers my question. Reading the PRIME article just tells me that it is up to me whether I want to use the proprietary or the open source drivers. I think this is way above my level of understanding. As I said before, this is the first time I own a laptop with a discrete graphics card. Thanks very much. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
