I installed fedora on this laptop the problem is that of the two video cards it seems to only use the basic one and not nvidia even though it is correctly installed.
What checks can I do to see if it really is correctly installed?
What can I do to make it use only the nvidia card even if I’m not playing games (90% of the time)?
Check your BIOS for a toggle.
there doesn’t seem to be anything to switch the video card on and off
lspci
and
lshw
will find hardware. Look for vga controllers.
Some possible bad news, HP Victus use a strange firmware that uses both iGPU and Dedicated card! See e.g. Reddit - Heart of the internet
From my searching it seems that if it does not have MUX switch, it uses the strange dual system.
Though it may be able to switch in Win 10/11 with Nvidia Control Panel I am not being able to change my display graphics from Intel... - HP Support Community - 9245852
How to do it on Linux? Other than running that Nvidia software under Wine I am not sure.
Option: Maybe in nvidia-setting there is the option. I do not know. Nor is nvidia-settings in the base Fedora repo. This is the first time I have said this, but you might have better luck with Ubuntu. How to Install and Use the NVIDIA Control Panel on Linux
You may have PRIME GPU offloading.
lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile] (rev a1)
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] (rev c6)
06:00.5 Multimedia controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor (rev 01)
lshw
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
grishnakh
description: Computer
width: 64 bits
capabilities: smp vsyscall32
*-core
description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
*-memory
description: System memory
physical id: 0
size: 15GiB
*-cpu
product: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 1
bus info: cpu@0
version: 25.80.0
size: 3392MHz
capacity: 4280MHz
width: 64 bits
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp x86-64 constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local user_shstk clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd cppc arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip pku ospke vaes vpclmulqdq rdpid overflow_recov succor smca fsrm debug_swap cpufreq
configuration: microcode=173015057
*-pci:0
description: Host bridge
product: Renoir/Cezanne Root Complex
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-generic UNCLAIMED
description: IOMMU
product: Renoir/Cezanne IOMMU
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 0.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.2
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: Renoir PCIe GPP Bridge
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 1.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.1
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:28 ioport:f000(size=4096) memory:fb000000-fc0fffff ioport:7e00000000(size=4328521728)
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: iomemory:7e0-7df iomemory:7f0-7ef irq:82 memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:7e00000000-7effffffff memory:7f00000000-7f01ffffff ioport:f000(size=128) memory:fc000000-fc07ffff
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: GA107 High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1
logical name: card0
logical name: /dev/snd/controlC0
logical name: /dev/snd/hwC0D0
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D3p
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D7p
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D8p
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D9p
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:77 memory:fc080000-fc083fff
*-input:0
product: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3
physical id: 0
logical name: input16
logical name: /dev/input/event11
*-input:1
product: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7
physical id: 1
logical name: input17
logical name: /dev/input/event12
*-input:2
product: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8
physical id: 2
logical name: input18
logical name: /dev/input/event13
*-input:3
product: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9
physical id: 3
logical name: input19
logical name: /dev/input/event14
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 1.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.2
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:29 ioport:e000(size=4096) memory:fc900000-fc9fffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eno1
version: 16
serial: 5c:60:ba:be:34:f8
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=6.13.6-200.fc41.x86_64 firmware=rtl8168h-2_0.0.2 02/26/15 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:73 ioport:e000(size=256) memory:fc904000-fc904fff memory:fc900000-fc903fff
*-pci:2
description: PCI bridge
product: Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 2.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:30 ioport:d000(size=4096) memory:fc800000-fc8fffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8852AE 802.11ax PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlo1
version: 00
serial: 4a:b4:1a:d5:63:ff
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtw89_8852ae driverversion=6.13.6-200.fc41.x86_64 firmware=N/A ip=192.168.10.167 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes
resources: irq:80 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:fc800000-fc8fffff
*-pci:3
description: PCI bridge
product: Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 2.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.2
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:31 memory:fc700000-fc7fffff
*-generic
description: MMC Host
product: GL9750 SD Host Controller
vendor: Genesys Logic, Inc
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: mmc0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=sdhci-pci latency=0
resources: irq:71 memory:fc700000-fc700fff
*-pci:4
description: PCI bridge
product: Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 2.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.3
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:32 memory:fc600000-fc6fffff
*-nvme
description: NVMe device
product: WD PC SN810 SDCPNRY-512G-1006
vendor: Sandisk Corp
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: /dev/nvme0
version: HPS2
serial: 22281D464513
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: nvme nvm_express bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=nvme latency=0 nqn=nqn.2018-01.com.wdc:nguid:E8238FA6BF53-0001-001B444A4897725D state=live
resources: irq:56 memory:fc600000-fc603fff
*-namespace:0
description: NVMe disk
physical id: 0
logical name: hwmon3
*-namespace:1
description: NVMe disk
physical id: 2
logical name: /dev/ng0n1
*-namespace:2
description: NVMe disk
physical id: 1
bus info: nvme@0:1
logical name: /dev/nvme0n1
configuration: wwid=eui.e8238fa6bf530001001b444a4897725d
*-pci:5
description: PCI bridge
product: Renoir Internal PCIe GPP Bridge to Bus
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 8.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:08.1
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:33 ioport:c000(size=4096) memory:fc200000-fc5fffff ioport:d0000000(size=270532608)
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
version: c6
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=amdgpu latency=0
resources: irq:43 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:e0000000-e01fffff ioport:c000(size=256) memory:fc500000-fc57ffff
*-multimedia:0
description: Audio device
product: Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.1
logical name: card1
logical name: /dev/snd/controlC1
logical name: /dev/snd/hwC1D0
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC1D3p
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:78 memory:fc5c8000-fc5cbfff
*-input
product: HD-Audio Generic HDMI/DP,pcm=3
physical id: 0
logical name: input15
logical name: /dev/input/event15
*-generic
description: Encryption controller
product: Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) Platform Security Processor
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 0.2
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.2
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ccp latency=0
resources: irq:52 memory:fc400000-fc4fffff memory:fc5cc000-fc5cdfff
*-usb:0
description: USB controller
product: Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 0.3
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.3
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: xhci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=xhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:34 memory:fc300000-fc3fffff
*-usb:1
description: USB controller
product: Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 0.4
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.4
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: xhci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=xhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:43 memory:fc200000-fc2fffff
*-multimedia:1
description: Multimedia controller
product: ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 0.5
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.5
logical name: card3
logical name: /dev/snd/controlC3
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC3D0c
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_rn_pci_acp3x latency=0
resources: irq:76 memory:fc580000-fc5bffff
*-multimedia:2
description: Audio device
product: Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 0.6
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.6
logical name: card2
logical name: /dev/snd/controlC2
logical name: /dev/snd/hwC2D0
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC2D0c
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC2D0p
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:79 memory:fc5c0000-fc5c7fff
*-input:0
product: HD-Audio Generic Mic
physical id: 0
logical name: input20
logical name: /dev/input/event16
*-input:1
product: HD-Audio Generic Headphone
physical id: 1
logical name: input21
logical name: /dev/input/event17
*-serial
description: SMBus
product: FCH SMBus Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 14
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.0
version: 51
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
configuration: driver=piix4_smbus latency=0
resources: irq:0
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: FCH LPC Bridge
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 14.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.3
version: 51
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-pnp00:00
product: PnP device PNP0c01
physical id: 0
capabilities: pnp
configuration: driver=system
*-pnp00:01
product: PnP device PNP0b00
physical id: 1
capabilities: pnp
configuration: driver=rtc_cmos
*-pnp00:02
product: PnP device HPQ8001
vendor: Hewlett-Packard Co.
physical id: 2
capabilities: pnp
configuration: driver=i8042 kbd
*-pnp00:03
product: PnP device PNP0c02
physical id: 3
capabilities: pnp
configuration: driver=system
*-pci:1
description: Host bridge
product: Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 101
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:2
description: Host bridge
product: Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 102
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:3
description: Host bridge
product: Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 103
bus info: pci@0000:00:08.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:4
description: Host bridge
product: Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 0
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 104
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:5
description: Host bridge
product: Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 1
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 105
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.1
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:6
description: Host bridge
product: Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 2
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 106
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.2
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:7
description: Host bridge
product: Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 3
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 107
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.3
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=k10temp
resources: irq:0
*-pci:8
description: Host bridge
product: Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 4
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 108
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.4
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:9
description: Host bridge
product: Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 5
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 109
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.5
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:10
description: Host bridge
product: Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 6
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 10a
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.6
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:11
description: Host bridge
product: Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 7
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 10b
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.7
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-input:0
product: Power Button
physical id: 1
logical name: input0
logical name: /dev/input/event0
capabilities: platform
*-input:1
product: Lid Switch
physical id: 2
logical name: input1
logical name: /dev/input/event1
capabilities: platform
*-input:2
product: SYNA32B9:00 06CB:CE7D Touchpad
physical id: 3
logical name: input10
logical name: /dev/input/event7
logical name: /dev/input/mouse1
capabilities: i2c
*-input:3
product: Wireless hotkeys
physical id: 4
logical name: input12
logical name: /dev/input/event8
capabilities: platform
*-input:4
product: PC Speaker
physical id: 5
logical name: input13
logical name: /dev/input/event9
capabilities: isa
*-input:5
product: HP WMI hotkeys
physical id: 6
logical name: input14
logical name: /dev/input/event10
capabilities: platform
*-input:6
product: Power Button
physical id: 7
logical name: input2
logical name: /dev/input/event2
capabilities: platform
*-input:7
product: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
physical id: 8
logical name: input3
logical name: /dev/input/event3
logical name: input3::capslock
logical name: input3::numlock
logical name: input3::scrolllock
capabilities: i8042
*-input:8
product: Video Bus
physical id: 9
logical name: input4
logical name: /dev/input/event4
capabilities: platform
*-input:9
product: Video Bus
physical id: a
logical name: input5
logical name: /dev/input/event5
capabilities: platform
*-input:10
product: SYNA32B9:00 06CB:CE7D Mouse
physical id: b
logical name: input9
logical name: /dev/input/event6
logical name: /dev/input/mouse0
capabilities: i2c
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.
I’ve already read a couple of those articles
I’ll have a look
I edited your post and removed the blockquote " tags and added the preformatted text tags </> so the result appears exactly as seen on screen.
You definately have an Nvidia card recognised by the OS.
Working through George’s link seems like the best idea.
To use the discrete graphics card globally, one can set the environment variable in the /etc/environment file:
FILE/etc/environment
DRI_PRIME=1
AMDGPU - Gentoo wiki
I followed the article for AMDGPU - Gentoo wiki
but I get no results.
I relied on the AI to see if there were any extra steps to take and the result is that I can’t get past the system loading screen…
Now I have to reinstall everything
Did you manually verify everything the LLM told you ?
I just cheked again and it seems that is working
~ DRI_PRIME=1 glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau
OpenGL renderer string: zink Vulkan 1.4(NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU (NVIDIA_PROPRIETARY))
But the screen refresh rate is still at 60hz and I got that glx fail
Very glad your system is not broken 
What Nvidia drivers are you using?
https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/
I followed this guide and everything seems to work, except that the screen continues to be at 60Hz
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H (12) @ 4.28 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile [Discrete]
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series [Integrated]
$ lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_uvm 3997696 0
nvidia_drm 151552 7
nvidia_modeset 1830912 5 nvidia_drm
nvidia 97112064 59 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
drm_ttm_helper 16384 2 amdgpu,nvidia_drm
video 81920 2 amdgpu,nvidia_modeset
glxinfo | grep 'OpenGL renderer' 127 ↵
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi, renoir, ACO, DRM 3.61, 6.13.8-200.fc41.x86_64