I think my NVIDIA graphics card might be damaged because I'm experiencing a lot of issues with my Fedora setup. The system lags a ton while playing videos in VLC or any media player, and it even blacks out sometimes. After uninstalling the NVIDIA graphics driver using `sudo dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia*`, I rebooted, and now my system is showing 'llvmpipe' instead of NVIDIA, and my Intel integrated graphics is missing. To make things worse, my sound and Wi-Fi drivers are also gone, causing major lag and strange flickering on the screen. Here's a bit about my setup: I'm using Fedora Linux 43 with KDE Plasma 6.5.3, and I have an Intel i5-8300H CPU with 8GB of RAM.
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From what you've described, it looks like your NVIDIA card might not be fully compatible with Wayland since it's an older model. NVIDIA drivers usually perform better with X11, which might explain the system issues you're seeing. If that's the case, you could consider switching back to X11 if your machine supports it. Just remember that some older NVIDIA cards need the proprietary driver to function correctly, so a distribution that supports X11 natively could really help you out in this situation.
It sounds like you might be dealing with a dual-GPU setup where the Intel integrated GPU (iGPU) and NVIDIA discrete GPU (dGPU) need to work together. Sometimes just uninstalling the NVIDIA drivers doesn't fully disable the GPU in the system. I’d recommend checking your UEFI settings to see if you can disable the NVIDIA GPU entirely; that might help. You should also ensure the driver for the Intel GPU (like `xorg-x11-drv-intel`) is reinstalled since you mentioned having removed the NVIDIA driver. Also, make sure your system graphics settings are actually pointing to the iGPU instead of the dGPU.
Have you also considered switching to a distribution like Linux Mint or MX Linux? They tend to handle older NVIDIA drivers better and might resolve your performance issues without a lot of hassle.
Hey, it definitely seems like the removal of your NVIDIA drivers has caused a lot of issues. Sometimes when you use llvmpipe, it’s a fallback when the graphics card isn't properly set up. Have you tried updating your system or checking for missing dependencies? Also, consider temporarily switching to an X11 session instead of Wayland if your GPU is older—it usually works better for those older cards and could alleviate some of the performance problems you're experiencing.
I’ll give that a shot! Thanks for the tip! Maybe I can finally get my video playback sorted out.
I wish I could help with the UEFI settings, but there’s no option to disable my GPU there either. I did reinstall the Intel driver, but nothing seems to change.