KDE Plasma showing llvmpipe even though nvidia-smi shows everything is fine?

Mellow · March 24, 2025, 3:10pm

—warning I tend to write a lot, I try my best to keep it at least a bit funny so it doesent get boring----

Hi I’m a complete newbie to EndeavourOS, coming from a Distro (Garuda) where most things were pre-configured, and therefore mostly working out of the box.
Now that I don’t want to stay ‘ignorant’ forever I thought its time to move on and learn.
Well, now that I installed EOS i see in the KDE Systeminfo Page this weird llvmpipe thing.
(also yes i have a weird setup with 3 GPUs that causes Wayland troubles but that issue would be for another topic)

After seeing this i did nvidia-inst which changed nothing.
I read a whole bunch about this issue, many suggesting stuff about configuring stuff on x11 in the xorg config file. that one didnt exist so I looked up how to make one and followed the guide with the command ‘nvidia-xconfig’… well after rebooting EOS never started again… how totally typical for me.

Well after reinstalling, and configuring BTRFS+Timeshift+Grub Snapshot boot thing after the Guide that I found here (so that I hopefully dont have to reinstall again), I installed egpu-switcher for x11. Because that too creates a sort of x11 config. (and since i have a eGPU i need that anyway to see something on the 2nd monitor on x11)
I forgot to screenshot the Systeminfo before I installed egpu-switcher, but under x11 all 3 GPUs were labeled as llvmpipe. But now it looks like i have 3 RTX3080s which is kinda funny xDDD

It didnt change anything under Wayland though sadly.

Also before i forget here is the nvidia-smi output:

And here a fastfetcher one (if it helps):

So as it is, I really dont know to solve this, under Garuda it was displayed correctly.
If it is just a cosmetic thing I wouldnt care too much, but I fear that this could be much deeper and later cause Gaming or Video editing problems - with the performance especially.
I also tried following this but got confused at point 3:
https://discovery.endeavouros.com/nvidia/nvidia-optional-enhancements-and-troubleshooting/2021/03/

Also here is this:

System:
  Kernel: 6.13.8-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.3 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
    Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Razer product: Blade Stealth 13 (Early 2020) -
    RZ09-0310 v: 2.04 serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Razer model: LY325 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: RZ09-03102G52 UEFI: Razer v: 1.04 date: 11/19/2020
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 47.9 Wh (100.0%) condition: 47.9/53.4 Wh (89.7%)
    volts: 11.4 min: 11.6 model: Razer Blade serial: <filter> status: full
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-1065G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Ice Lake rev: 5 cache: L1: 320 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 928 min/max: 400/3900 cores: 1: 928 2: 928 3: 928 4: 928
    5: 928 6: 928 7: 928 8: 928 bogomips: 23961
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 vendor: Razer USA driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-11 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-4, DP-5, DP-6, DP-7,
    DP-8 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:8a52
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080 Lite Hash Rate]
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 570.133.07 arch: Ampere pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 4 ports: active: none off: DP-1
    empty: DP-2,DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 2e:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2216
  Device-3: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile] vendor: Razer USA
    driver: nvidia v: 570.133.07 arch: Turing pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 4
    bus-ID: 58:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f95
  Device-4: IMC Networks Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-6:4 chip-ID: 13d3:56d5
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia dri: iris
    gpu: i915,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch d-rect: 5760x2160 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: DP-1 pos: right model: MSI MAG271CR res: 1920x1080 hz: 144
    dpi: 82 diag: 686mm (27")
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: primary,left model: AU Optronics 0x272b
    res: 3840x2160 hz: 60 dpi: 333 diag: 336mm (13.2")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: nvidia
    device: 2 drv: iris gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland:
    drv: iris x11: drv: iris
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.2-arch1.2
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Plus Graphics (ICL
    GT2) device-ID: 8086:8a52 display-ID: :1.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 0
    type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:2216 device: 1
    type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:1f95
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
    wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Razer USA
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-icl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:34c8
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA102 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 4 bus-ID: 2e:00.1
    chip-ID: 10de:1aef
  API: ALSA v: k6.13.8-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.1 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:34f0
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: ASIX AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet driver: ax88179_178a type: USB
    rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 10-1:2 chip-ID: 0b95:1790
  IF: enp51s0u1 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-10:9 chip-ID: 8087:0026
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: disabled
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: N/A
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 142.19 GiB (7.6%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 2TB size: 1.82 TiB
    speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 33.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 1.8 TiB used: 142.19 GiB (7.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 2 GiB used: 608 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-3: /home size: 1.8 TiB used: 142.19 GiB (7.7%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-4: /var/log size: 1.8 TiB used: 142.19 GiB (7.7%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.89 GiB used: 256 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.35 GiB used: 4.64 GiB (30.2%)
  Processes: 266 Power: uptime: 2h 34m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 257
    default: graphical
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1052 Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash
    v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.37

(Also, as said I’m practicly a newbie, so might not understand everything you try to tell me.. And as you may see on the Screenshots, you are allowed to explain in german, if you can. I dont mind either way)

Thanks in advance!
(And sorry for writing way too much)

MichelN · March 25, 2025, 7:25pm

Did you try it looking in X11 ? your running Wayland.

Mellow · March 25, 2025, 7:43pm

Uh, yeah as I explained at the second screenshot (that Screenshot is from x11 if you look closely) first all 3 GPUs showed llvmpipe, and after installing egpu-switcher now all 3 are labeled as RTX3080.
And as also said, this didn’t change anything for Wayland. Which seems logical…

MichelN · March 25, 2025, 7:45pm

Sorry i looked over it.

Mellow · March 25, 2025, 8:18pm

No problemo

Mellow · March 26, 2025, 10:35am

I now also installed EnvyControl (with a KDE Plugin for it so I can better look at it) but that didn’t fix it either…

Also i found this Reddit Thread and in the comments they stated that this can easily be fixed with installing vulkan-loader-devel… But since this is Fedora I can’t find it here in Arch… I don’t know it seems like it is the same issue but still could be bit different, I’m no expert here…
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/1ir59gd/should_i_worry_that_it_shows_the_oher_discrate/

MichelN · March 26, 2025, 5:20pm

yay -S vulkan-icd-loader

Mellow · March 27, 2025, 8:44am

Was already installed, reinstalled anyway and rebooted. nothing changed sadly…

Edit: I want to add, that I also now installed lib32-nvidia-utils, as this is often stated that it can help… But it didn’t do the trick for me either

Mellow · March 29, 2025, 1:21pm

I now also want to add… That after doing this, what I didn’t understand before
https://discovery.endeavouros.com/nvidia/nvidia-optional-enhancements-and-troubleshooting/2021/03/
as i was stuck at point 3 since i was confused with the dracut or mkinitcpio thing.. well the command ‘reeinstall-kernels’ doesen’t seem to exist but all other things i did.. but again changed nothing…

also, that point 3 where you have to add this line in the nvidia config file from dracut. it was completly empty as if it didn’t exist before. so idk about that… it seems too me as if my system lacks all files that it could need (esp stuff that that it needs to know that my gpus exist)

MichelN · March 30, 2025, 5:39pm

I installed endeavour os on my main gaming notebook, i have the same llvmpipe as you have. Everything else lists the nvidia card so i am not going to worry about it.

Mellow · March 31, 2025, 9:26am

Yeah, seems similar as nvidia smi and fastfetch display the cards correctly..
(i like that picture btw, i NEED that picture btw… where did u get it?)
I hope that (when my game finally completes installing..) that it will work fine (under x11 it should work i guess) and the video-editing stuff too.. Shure I would like using wayland but that currently isn’t possible because of another problem that would require a new topic (and i postet it before on garuda forum without figuring out bc according to them it may be a wayland issue with 3 GPUs)

its just weird to me that (before installing egpu-switcher) under x11 not even the intel iGPU got displayed (and now all 3 are displayed as rtx3080 (under x11))

also i saw the 2nd comment before u deleted it, yes i tried it (its like top google search anyway) but that is that what broke my first install,… i think this is bc of my weird setup… (or that currently I just understand 60-70% on what im doing when reading the arch wiki… it takes time with me.. be patient)

MichelN · March 31, 2025, 12:38pm

I did add the x11 configs as well, did not break my system but i could not sign off to try it in x11. Somehow it conflicts with wayland.

I did try to game and crysis 3 runs very fast (same if not better then pop os under x11) fps where 150-185. Did a small test run. The iGPU communicates perfectly fine with the dGPU so i am not going to bother with that name there. All the tests shows the nvidia card is in use. Probably a kde bug because it worked fine in gnome on pop os 22.04

The picture i will share later today, got it on the forum.

Edit: @Mellow

Here it is → Fastfetch Config Tinkering - #157 by UncleSpellbinder

MichelN · March 31, 2025, 4:49pm

@ricklinux any ideas why ? just for my learning

In steam the games are running bloody fast, however when i want to copy my specs over to protondb i noticed it does not list the nvidia card, i do know it is using it because my games otherwise would not run + my power button is orange which means it’s using the dGPU. When it’s white it’s using the iGPU.

nvidia-inst shows this

ricklinux · March 31, 2025, 6:45pm

I’m not sure if you completed these commands. It’s showing that nvidia-dkms-570.133.07.01 and nvidia-570.133.07-2 are in conflict and it needs to remove it. Did you answer Y for yes?

Edit: Then if it completes you need to reboot.

MichelN · March 31, 2025, 6:51pm

nvidia-dkms is not auto installed after a clean install and it says it’s conflicting with nvidia

The other error says it cannot delete it because steam relies on it.

I know i can remove them with the -Rdd command.

ricklinux · March 31, 2025, 6:58pm

I think nvidia-inst installs the dkms version. So it’s trying to remove a dependency that is in conflict. Are you wanting to run nvidia-inst? If so you’ll have to deal with the dependency that Steam is saying is needed. I’m not sure how to get around that. Maybe you can use the --force command? I’m not sure … maybe @manuel can answer this one to be sure.

MichelN · March 31, 2025, 7:16pm

The only thing i want to try to “fix” is my nvidia listed in steam specs and in the settings menu. For some reason it does not show up over there while the drivers are listed.

The games are playing beautifully so i cant complain but “something” is going on in wayland.

In pop os i did not had this “issue”

Thanks anyway @ricklinux , i tagged you because i thought you where the nvidia expert .

ricklinux · April 1, 2025, 12:55am

Well I wouldn’t go that far. The problem is I don’t game so I’m not sure what the issue may be. But that shouldn’t have anything to do with the info center on plasma showing llvmpipe. It’s gaming laptop so obviously hybrid and what you are showing is that it is rendering on Intel. I’m not sure how you switching to nvidia but that may have something to do with why it is showing that info.

MichelN · April 1, 2025, 3:49am

It’s automatically changing from iGPU to dGPU. When i surf or do light tasks the laptops power button is white. When i hit steam the power button changes to orange (dGPU). This is how the msi notebook is designed.

Mellow · April 1, 2025, 1:18pm

ok I can say my game chooses to run on my rtx under x11, which is nice for now (just have some minor problems bc for some reason i have screen tearing but i guess ill figure that out… hopefully)
*Edit: fixed it, was just x11 setting my second monitor to 60hz even tho it can do more than that xD

also thanks for the picture

Also, I want to say, steam itself just shows the intel iGPU, which itself is weird as once a game starts it automaticly uses my 3080. bc under x11 egpu-switcher turns every non egpu off. and kde shows all 3 as rtx3080 (which, half-way makes sense i guess, still wasnt a thing under my old distro).. it doesen’t line up at all.