GPU drivers in Fedore 34 - understanding the status of the drivers

[Arman777]

7.5 GiB
Intel® Core™ i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz x 4
NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce 940MX] / Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)

When I first started to using Fedora 34 I was using Nouveau drivers. However, I guess later on I have enabled the Nvidia drivers. The reason why I am not sure as follows.

1) At the booting time there was an error saying
Nvidia kernel module missing, falling back to nouveau
Now this error is gone.
2) I can open the Nvidia Server Settings
3) When I type

lsmod | grep nvidia

I am getting.

nvidia_drm             69632  2
nvidia_modeset       1200128  2 nvidia_drm
nvidia              35332096  72 nvidia_modeset
drm_kms_helper        303104  2 nvidia_drm,i915
drm                   630784  12 drm_kms_helper,nvi

However, In my terminal page (via screenfetch) it says.

I did not understand why it shows Intel instead of Nvidia.

I have 2 questions.

1) Is this a bug caused by the screenfetch ?
2) If I am still running Intel is it worth to switch Nvidia Drivers ? (I am not gaming in Linux)

Currently I am around 60 FPS

301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.999 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.011 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.999 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.007 FPS

 

[pbuk]

You should be able to see the GPU in screenfetch: here's mine:

I believe Wayland (the display server Gnome uses) does not play nicely with the proprietary drivers, various solutions probably around using some combination of "Wayland", "nvidea", "gnome" and "fedora" as search terms.

Alternatively install a different desktop or even switch to a different Fedora spin, KDE might be a good one.

Alternatively switch to a different distro which has good support for proprietary drivers out of the box as a feature - did I mention Mint?

If you are going to go down the Linux route you need to get good at searching out help for stuff like this: distro specfic forums are usually the best start: https://fedoraforum.org/ https://ask.fedoraproject.org/

 

[Arman777]

If you are going to go down the Linux route you need to get good at searching out help for stuff like this: distro specfic forums are usually the best start: https://fedoraforum.org/ https://ask.fedoraproject.org/

That's a good idea. Thanks for pointing that out. I have online searched about the problem but not found many.

I believe Wayland (the display server Gnome uses) does not play nicely with the proprietary drivers, various solutions probably around using some combination of "Wayland", "nvidea", "gnome" and "fedora" as search terms.

I also heard the Wayland term in my research, but I don't know what it means or how it affects the comp. The speed of the comp is good. But I also know that Nvidia drivers are not good with Linux. We all see this video.

So... I might switch to Nvidia, but I am not sure it will be worth the effort or not.