They are unchecked because you’re not using proprietary Nvidia drivers.
Don’t play with the checkboxes, or you’ll probably install them inadvertently.
Hmmmm, didn’t think 3d games would play, they do which is odd. That is why Wayland didn’t detect my monitor. If I start using theme, evrything should look better. If I do check these, if a prob. happens ir will fall back to the open source prob. right?
I don’ think that’s quite right. All we see here is the unchecked for the column that’s for open-source, the next column not shown would show checks for what’s installed.
This is how it looks for me:
That is odd, the 2nd nvodia is unchecked in both spots. Plus it is OLD. So check in column 2 is what’s being used? Plus, mine say unknown device, does that mean my GPU is not 100%? So I am using the Nvidia drivers??
It means it doesn’t know the name for your device. Mine also says Unknown device name.
Yes.
To check GPU device and drivers:
inxi -G
Thanks, looks good.
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate] driver: nvidia
v: 550.120
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.2 driver: X:
loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia resolution: 3840x2160~144Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,nvidia,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 550.120
renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.295 drivers: nvidia surfaces: xcb,xlib
I made the assumption he wasn’t using Nvidia.
Both the text and the images have been incomplete.
The quote above for example is missing a designating ?
, though it was intended as a question.
For whatever reason the column labeled ‘Open Source’ beside the ‘Installed’ column, has been misinterpreted to also mean ‘installed’, which would be incorrect.
I’ll say it clearly again in case it is needed by anyone …
Driver | Open-source | Installed |
---|---|---|
some-driver-ver | A checkmark here indicates whether or not the driver is ‘open-source’. | A checkmark here indicates whether or not the driver is installed |
The ‘Open-source’ column will never change.
The only options the user has is the final column - ‘Installed’.
This shows that the user does not have any of the listed open-source drivers installed, but does have the video-nvidia
driver installed, which is not open-source.
The second nvidia is not checker at all, that is odd.
Only one nVidia driver is needed
video-nvidia
is the latest version. v: 550.120
video-nvidia-470xx
is for older GPU that needs legacy support
My system has an older nVidia GPU that uses 470xx legacy driver
Manjaro Settings Manager GUI does not show video-nvidia
for older GPU
$ mhwd -li
> Installed PCI configs:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-nvidia-470xx 2023.03.23 false PCI
$ mhwd -l
> 0000:01:00.0 (0300:10de:1287) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-nvidia-470xx 2023.03.23 false PCI
video-nvidia-390xx 2023.03.23 false PCI
video-linux 2024.05.06 true PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
video-vesa 2017.03.12 true PCI
How?
It is neither open source, nor installed.
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