Can't get a RTX 3060 to work properly

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Hi, I’m trying to get steam to work on my freshly installed desktop with RTX 3060.

First, I followed this guide: How to Install Nvidia Drivers on Fedora | phoenixNAP KB installing the drivers using the official NVIDIA installer. I’ve managed to launch steam, but not any games.

(After being unable to login to forums for some reason) I went to the Fedora Discord server where they recommended to use the RPM fusion guide here: Howto/NVIDIA - RPM Fusion

I have followed that and now steam won’t even launch properly. I’m dumbfounded and don’t know how to proceed. I’m attaching some logs below.

Output from lspci -k -s 0a:00.0

0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate]
    Kernel driver in use: nvidia
    Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

Output from rpm -qa | grep nvidia

nvidia-gpu-firmware-20230804-153.fc38.noarch
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc-535.98-2.fc38.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs-535.98-2.fc38.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-535.98-2.fc38.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-535.98-2.fc38.x86_64
nvidia-settings-535.98-1.fc38.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power-535.98-2.fc38.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-535.98-2.fc38.x86_64
akmod-nvidia-535.98-1.fc38.x86_64
nvidia-persistenced-535.98-1.fc38.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs-535.98-2.fc38.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-535.98-2.fc38.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-6.4.10-200.fc38.x86_64-535.98-1.fc38.x86_64

Shortened output from steam -v (it froze at the end of the log)

...
[2023-08-20 19:19:13] Downloading update (373,376 of 373,376 KB)...
[2023-08-20 19:19:13] Download Complete.
...
[2023-08-20 19:19:22] Installing update...
[2023-08-20 19:19:24] Cleaning up...
[2023-08-20 19:19:24] Update complete, launching...
[2023-08-20 19:19:24] Shutdown
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1.0)/tid(12157)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1.0)/tid(12158)
steam.sh[3761]: Restarting Steam by request...
steam.sh[3761]: Running Steam on fedora 38 64-bit
steam.sh[3761]: STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/honzik/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
libEGL warning: DRI3: Screen seems not DRI3 capable
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
libEGL warning: DRI3: Screen seems not DRI3 capable
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
setup.sh[12373]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libcurl-gnutls.so.4
setup.sh[12373]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libcurl.so.4
setup.sh[12373]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libdbusmenu-glib.so.4
setup.sh[12373]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libdbusmenu-gtk.so.4
setup.sh[12373]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
setup.sh[12373]: Found newer runtime version for 64-bit libSDL2-2.0.so.0. Host: 0.2600.3 Runtime: 0.2600.5
setup.sh[12373]: Forced use of runtime version for 64-bit libcurl-gnutls.so.4
setup.sh[12373]: Forced use of runtime version for 64-bit libcurl.so.4
setup.sh[12373]: Found newer runtime version for 64-bit libdbusmenu-glib.so.4. Host: 4.0.12 Runtime: 4.0.13
steam.sh[3761]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
[2023-08-20 19:19:30] Startup - updater built Jul 28 2023 18:44:09
[2023-08-20 19:19:30] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/honzik/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-v'
08/20 19:19:30 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1690583737)/tid(13231)
[2023-08-20 19:19:30] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/honzik/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2023-08-20 19:19:30] Failed to load cached hosts file (File 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' not found), using defaults
[2023-08-20 19:19:30] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2023-08-20 19:19:30] 1. https://cdn.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2023-08-20 19:19:30] Verifying installation...
[2023-08-20 19:19:30] Verification complete
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/main.rc:733: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/hacks.rc:28: error: invalid string constant "normal_entry", expected valid string constant
XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf6a49170
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf6a47880
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
steamwebhelper.sh[13317]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/honzik/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[13317]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 0 milliseconds to initialize
BRefreshApplicationsInLibrary 1: 0ms
BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 268 apps
RegisterForAppOverview 1: 8ms
RegisterForAppOverview 2: 8ms
[2023-08-20 19:21:31] Background update loop checking for update. . .
[2023-08-20 19:21:31] Checking for available updates...
[2023-08-20 19:21:31] Downloading manifest: https://cdn.steamstatic.com/client/steam_client_ubuntu12?t=2556154951
[2023-08-20 19:21:31] Manifest download: send request
[2023-08-20 19:21:31] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2023-08-20 19:21:31] Manifest download: finished
[2023-08-20 19:21:31] Download skipped: /client/steam_client_ubuntu12?t=2556154951 version 1690583737, installed version 1690583737, existing pending version 0
[2023-08-20 19:21:31] Nothing to do
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First, we need to know which instructions were used to install the nvidia drivers. That tutorial you linked is more than 2 years old, related to fedora 33 & 34, and also includes installing from nvidia.com.

We can get a very quick answer if you were to provide the results from
dnf list installed \*nvidia\* since that also shows the repo the packages came from.

The info from steam is not pertinent to getting the driver working properly.

Please show lsmod | grep nvidia and inxi -Fzxx

The steam issue may be related to using wayland and not using xorg.

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I installed the drivers directly from nvidia.com. After that didn’t work, I used RPM Fusion.

Output from dnf list installed \*nvidia\*

Installed Packages
akmod-nvidia.x86_64                                      3:535.98-1.fc38                  @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
kmod-nvidia-6.4.10-200.fc38.x86_64.x86_64                3:535.98-1.fc38                  @@commandline                   
nvidia-gpu-firmware.noarch                               20230804-153.fc38                @updates                        
nvidia-persistenced.x86_64                               3:535.98-1.fc38                  @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
nvidia-settings.x86_64                                   3:535.98-1.fc38                  @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64                               3:535.98-2.fc38                  @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda.x86_64                          3:535.98-2.fc38                  @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.i686                       3:535.98-2.fc38                  @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64                     3:535.98-2.fc38                  @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64                       3:535.98-2.fc38                  @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686                            3:535.98-2.fc38                  @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64                          3:535.98-2.fc38                  @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64                         3:535.98-2.fc38                  @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver

Output from lsmod | grep nvidia

nvidia_drm             94208  2
nvidia_modeset       1556480  2 nvidia_drm
nvidia_uvm           3493888  0
nvidia              62656512  79 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
video                  77824  1 nvidia_modeset

Output from echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

x11
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That seems to show the nvidia GPU is operating properly, the drivers are installed and active.

How did you install steam? Was it from rpmfusion, from flatpak, or other?
Please post the output of dnf list installed steam so we may confirm.

I use steam with an RTX 3050 and steam was installed from rpmfusion using dnf install steam then run directly from the user account (launched from the icon). It takes a considerable time to fully install when initially started then with each launch it goes through the verification of version and does an update if required – all of which must complete before the app launches and is usable.

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Output from dnf list installed steam

Installed Packages
steam.i686               1.0.0.78-1.fc38                @rpmfusion-nonfree-steam

I have already tried reinstalling multiple times, always waiting until the installation finishes (as seen from the output of steam -v I have already sent)