Nvidia packages but no nvidia hardware

Hi !
My Victus has no nvidia hardware but I see nvidia packages.
Is this normal ?

~]$ sudo inxi -G --gpu
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 14 [Radeon RX 5500/5500M / Pro 5500M]
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-1 code: Navi
    process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2019-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
    lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:7340 class-ID: 0380
  Device-2: AMD Cezanne vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel
    arch: GCN-5.1 code: Vega-2 process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2018-21 pcie:
    gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1638
    class-ID: 0300 temp: 45.0 C
  Device-3: Quanta HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 0408:5425 class-ID: fe01 serial: 0001
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
    compositor: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
    unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi
    gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x1606 built: 2019
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 137 gamma: 1.2 size: 355x199mm (13.98x7.83")
    diag: 407mm (16") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (LLVM 14.0.6 DRM 3.48 6.0.0-1-MANJARO) v: 4.6
    Mesa 22.1.7 direct render: Yes
/]$ pacman -Q | grep "nvidia"
mhwd-nvidia 515.76-1
mhwd-nvidia-390xx 390.154-2
mhwd-nvidia-470xx 470.141.03-3
nvidia-utils 515.76-1
opencl-nvidia 515.76-1

Yes, this is normal. Those are only modules belonging to mhwd.

Think of it this way: my system has no Bluetooth adapters, and yet I’ve got Bluetooth-related packages installed as well. I also don’t have a modem, and yet I also have the ModemManager package installed. :wink:

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Those are not and can be removed on a system with no NVIDIA hardware.

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Thank you for caring.
obviously this came from gpufetch (that I removed)

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