I suspect that my nvidia graphics card has been damaged and it is causing many problems in my fedora setup, like the system lags a lot when playing videos in vlc or any media player and the system blacks out from time to time.

So I uninstalled the graphics driver (I am on laptop so I can’t remove the graphics card) using sudo dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia\* I found at reddit.

But after restarting I notice that in About section: llvmpipe shows up in place of nvidia and intel integrated graphics is also missing.

And with those the sound drivers are gone too! And now the whole system is lagging, and weird flickers and colors are showing up on the screen.

System abouts:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 43 KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0 Qt Version: 6.10.1 Kernel Version: 6.17.11-300.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8300H CPU @ 2.30GHz Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (7.6 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: llvmpipe Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Product Name: TUF GAMING FX504GD_FX80GD System Version: 1.0

  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    llvmpipe means you only have software graphics rendering. You got rid of the graphics driver, so that’s not in usage. As for intel graphics, perhaps you need to ensure that you have mesa-dri-drivers installed? Or maybe somehow the intel kernel module has been blacklisted?