Why are these unchecked?


Am I not using the nvidia drivers, when I start a game it loads fine.

They are unchecked because you’re not using proprietary Nvidia drivers.

Don’t play with the checkboxes, or you’ll probably install them inadvertently. :wink:

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:
manjaro.settings.manager.hardware

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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.

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To check GPU device and drivers:

inxi -G
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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

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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.

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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:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    video-nvidia-470xx            2023.03.23               false            PCI
$ mhwd -l
> 0000:01:00.0 (0300:10de:1287) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    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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