Why Does Settings | About Say "Mesa Intel" Instead of "Nvidia" When Using Wayland?
The Graphics Section of the Settings | About Page Under Wayland in Ubuntu 20.04 Is Confusing Me. It Claims That I Am Using Intel Graphics, While All Other...
The Graphics section of the Settings | About page under Wayland in Ubuntu 20.04 is confusing me.
It claims that I am using Intel graphics, while all other system information indicates that I am using Nvidia graphics.
When I log into a Wayland session, the Graphics section states:
Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) / Mesa Intel® UHD Graphic...
However, when I log into an XOrg session, the Graphics section states:
NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX150] / Mesa Intel® UHD Gra...
Under both Wayland and XOrg sessions, the Software & Updates app consistently shows:
Using NVIDIA driver metapackage from nvidia-driver-455 (proprietary, tested)
Is it normal for Ubuntu in Wayland to not list NVIDIA on the Settings | About page?
Or am I over looking something?
To ensure Nvidia would be active in Wayland, I took the following steps:
Installed the Nvidia drivers using:
ubuntu-drivers --gpgpu autoinstall nvidiaEnabled Wayland option on GDM in
/etc/gdm3/custom.conf.grep "WaylandEnable" /etc/gdm3/custom.conf WaylandEnable=trueRemoved the rule disabling Wayland on GDM with Nvidia in
/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules.grep "DRIVER" /lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules # DRIVER=="nvidia", RUN+="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-disable-wayland"Blacklisted Nouveau in Grub in
/etc/default/grub.grep GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash modprobe.blacklist=nouveau"
Here is the output of various commands showing graphics information, if they help.
sudo lshw -C display
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: UHD Graphics 620
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 07
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:151 memory:db000000-dbffffff memory:70000000-7fffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
*-display
description: 3D controller
product: GP108M [GeForce MX150]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:153 memory:dc000000-dcffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff memory:c0000000-c1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:dd000000-dd07ffff
...
lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07)
DeviceName: Onboard IGD
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company UHD Graphics 620
Kernel driver in use: i915
--
00:13.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Integrated Sensor Hub (rev 21)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Sunrise Point-LP Integrated Sensor Hub
Kernel driver in use: intel_ish_ipc
Kernel modules: intel_ish_ipc
--
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX150] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company GP108M [GeForce MX150]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
...
lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_uvm 1007616 0
nvidia_drm 53248 0
nvidia_modeset 1216512 1 nvidia_drm
nvidia 27701248 20 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
drm_kms_helper 184320 2 nvidia_drm,i915
drm 491520 9 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm,i915
...
nvidia-smi
Tue Dec 29 22:43:33 2020
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 455.38 Driver Version: 455.38 CUDA Version: 11.1 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce MX150 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 39C P8 N/A / N/A | 0MiB / 2002MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
...
sudo prime-select query
on-demand