I suspect that my nvidia graphics card has been damaged and it is causing many problems in my fedora setup, like the system lags a lot when playing videos in vlc or any media player and the system blacks out from time to time.

So I uninstalled the graphics driver (I am on laptop so I can’t remove the graphics card) using sudo dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia\* I found at reddit.

But after restarting I notice that in About section: llvmpipe shows up in place of nvidia and intel integrated graphics is also missing.

And with those the sound and network (wifi) drivers are now gone too! And now the whole system is lagging, and weird flickers and colors are showing up on the screen.

NOTE: After waiting for a while, I did not find a fix here, so I am posting this on reddit as well.

System abouts:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.17.11-300.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8300H CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (7.6 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: llvmpipe
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Product Name: TUF GAMING FX504GD_FX80GD
System Version: 1.0
  • √𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.worldEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    Sorry, for the delay, - sleep. These are the places I check, but I am no expert kernel dev or anything.

    I had a similar-ish issue in an embedded Arch yesterday. Apparently there was an upstream change in the organization of Linux firmware. It was in the pacman manual intervention news feed from a few months ago, like October I think. Anyways, I just had to update that Arch build by removing the Nvidia firmware. The arch instructions were to delete all entries in Linux-firmware and rebuild them with pacman after a -Syu update. I am on obscure hardware on that device, and the error I was getting was specifically related to the older Nvidia firmware modules. So I only removed them and it resolved my issue. IIRC, the Arch news mentioned something about how these firmware files got relocated upstream. Maybe this was not resolved correctly for your firmware by the Fedora packagers.