This is my first time using any Linux distro and, although i’m enjoying it, I can’t install NVIDIA drivers or make the card my first GPU.
At first I was tying to install the drives by the command: sudo dnf install gcc kernel-headers kernel-devel akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
but when I waited 5 minuts and rebooted my sistem, it displayed the following message,
NVIDIA kernel module missing. Falling back to nouveau
After that, i looked for people with similar questions and tried Jeff’s solution given here: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-37-nvidia-kernel-module-missing-falling-back-to-nouveau/71372?u=hymn0
Then, I reinstalled the drivers and disabled secure boot.
These changes caused the error message to not be displayed anymore and made the NVIDIA GPU appears on my ‘About’, in settings. But, when I check which is my first GPU, it shows my Intel processor. And, when i check for the NVIDIA GPU activity, I can see that the card is not being used at all.
Finally, I think that it is important to mention that the Fedora 37 is installed on a MSI notebook, that probably uses Optimus.
as I read I can tell you managed to install the driver and is working as intended, because you have an internal and discrete GPU in hybrid mode, Fedora will use the IGPU to load the system and desktop and will let the dGPU to load games and stuff on demand
you can set you dGPU as the main GPU, but that requires to do it on the BIOS. the system will respond on that change automatically.
Personally I prefer to have a laptop in hybrid mode, I do run mine like that. Steam, Heroic Launcher, etc all launch the game using the dGPU automatically
in hybrid mode if you want to force the dGPU just use this __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia <any_command>
for example this is glxinfo in my laptop with dGPU and then iGPU