Few days ago I did the weekly system update which included latest NVIDIA drivers. Everything went smoothly, no error messages, systems works as usual. Today I wanted to play some game and I noticed that the performance was horrible. This is what I found
lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0aff
Kernel driver in use: i915
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0aff
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 0
I've tried to reinstall drivers, and ran some fixes I found online but still no luck. Any ideas how to fix it?
update
Just remembered. After last drivers update I wasn't able to run any Steam game. I always got some directx error. Before I had no issues.
update 2
I'm on Fedora 40, currently I'm using drivers downloaded directly from NVIDIA website. Before that I was using whatever drivers from these repositories
dnf repolist
repo id repo name
fedora Fedora 40 - x86_64
fedora-cisco-openh264 Fedora 40 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
nvidia-container-toolkit nvidia-container-toolkit
protonvpn-fedora-stable ProtonVPN Fedora Stable repository
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Free
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Free - Updates
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree - Updates
updates
The only thing I remember related to messing with drivers was playing with podman containers accessing my gpu (nvidia-container-toolkit).
Currently I'm using driver version 550.107.02
Do you not need the
nvidia-drm.modeset=1inGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX?https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/#262-edit-etcdefaultgrub
You might be right. I have a feeling that when I blacklisted nouveau rest of the stuff got deleted from this line. I'll give it a try.
Make sure to update your grub after you do. I've messed that one up before lol 😅
Yeah, I think I messed it up :) Now my system starts in cli mode. Well, I wanted to nuke everything anyway so no harm done.
edit
I was able to switch to gui but still no luck with the gpu.
Ah if you messed it up, you can press "e" on the grub entry and edit the command line parameters to remove the thing that messes it up. Good luck with your fresh install [and use Debian this time... jk :)]