Enabling iGPU on [Redacted] Dedi Running Rawhide

Not_Oles · May 13

Many of [Redacted's] installs seem to load kernels with "nomodeset" set on grub's kernel command line. This disables the integrated graphics processor, and, I guess, saves on electricity.

I thought I might try doing something with the iGPU, so I enabled it.

[Redacted] Community has a 2019 tutorial at https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/howto-enable-igpu so I seemed to need a few updates for 2024 Fedora Rawhide.

Here's what I did:

  776  cd /etc/default
  777  ls
  778  cp -p grub /root/etc-default-grub-original # Enable revert
  [ . . . ] # More looking around with ls
  786  vi grub # Remove "nomodeset"
  787  grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
  788  ls /dev/dri # Nothing yet
  789  date -u; systemctl reboot

Now,

[root@polonium ~]# ls -al /dev/dri
total 0
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root        100 May 13 18:25 .
drwxr-xr-x. 20 root root       4120 May 13 18:25 ..
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root         80 May 13 18:25 by-path
crw-rw----.  1 root video  226,   0 May 13 18:25 card0
crw-rw-rw-.  1 root render 226, 128 May 13 18:25 renderD128
[root@polonium ~]#

What should I do next?