Hello,
I recently updated to Fedora 35 and noticed that lavapipe is being used instead of the gpu drivers (mesa or nvidia). If I type vulkaninfo this is what I get:
WARNING: lavapipe is not a conformant vulkan implementation, testing use only.
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VULKANINFO
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Vulkan Instance Version: 1.2.189
Instance Extensions: count = 19
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VK_EXT_acquire_drm_display : extension revision 1
VK_EXT_acquire_xlib_display : extension revision 1
VK_EXT_debug_report : extension revision 10
VK_EXT_debug_utils : extension revision 2
VK_EXT_direct_mode_display : extension revision 1
VK_EXT_display_surface_counter : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_device_group_creation : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_display : extension revision 23
VK_KHR_external_fence_capabilities : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_external_memory_capabilities : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_external_semaphore_capabilities : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_get_display_properties2 : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2 : extension revision 2
VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2 : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_surface : extension revision 25
VK_KHR_surface_protected_capabilities : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_wayland_surface : extension revision 6
VK_KHR_xcb_surface : extension revision 6
VK_KHR_xlib_surface : extension revision 6
Layers: count = 3
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VK_LAYER_MANGOHUD_overlay (Vulkan Hud Overlay) Vulkan version 1.2.135, layer version 1:
Layer Extensions: count = 0
Devices: count = 3
GPU id = 0 (Intel(R) HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2))
Layer-Device Extensions: count = 0
GPU id = 1 (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti)
Layer-Device Extensions: count = 0
GPU id = 2 (llvmpipe (LLVM 13.0.0, 256 bits))
Layer-Device Extensions: count = 0
VK_LAYER_MESA_device_select (Linux device selection layer) Vulkan version 1.2.73, layer version 1:
Layer Extensions: count = 0
Devices: count = 3
GPU id = 0 (Intel(R) HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2))
Layer-Device Extensions: count = 0
GPU id = 1 (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti)
Layer-Device Extensions: count = 0
GPU id = 2 (llvmpipe (LLVM 13.0.0, 256 bits))
Layer-Device Extensions: count = 0
I have mangohud installed but it shouldn’t interfere with the driver choice. Can someone help me get rid of lavapipe and instate back mesa/nvidia drivers?