External monitor connected to Nvidia GPU is stuck at 60Hz ; can do 75Hz max

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Hi! This evening, I have upgrade my packages and I’ve noticed that my external monitor connected to my gaming laptop is currently stuck at 60Hz. The monitor itself can do a maximum of 75Hz and it was running at that refresh rate up until the update.

What I have tried as a fix for the issue was the following two things:

  1. I have tried to rebuild the akmod(s) for the driver
  2. I have removed the package akmod-nvidia and I have reinstalled it
    None of those things have helped.

Anybody know what is up?

Below is some extra info that I think might help y'all:
Results of running inxi -e 
System:
  Host: ion-fedora Kernel: 6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.2 Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop
    Edition)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Nitro AN515-45 v: V1.10
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: CZ model: Scala_CAS v: V1.10 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: Insyde v: 1.10 date: 08/02/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 43.2 Wh (100%) condition: 43.2/57.5 Wh (75.1%)
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP cache: L2: 3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1109 min/max: 413/4281 cores: 1: 1109 2: 1109 3: 1109
    4: 1109 5: 1109 6: 1109 7: 1109 8: 1109 9: 1109 10: 1109 11: 1109 12: 1109
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile] driver: nvidia
    v: 580.105.08
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series /
    Radeon Mobile Series] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Device-3: Quanta HD User Facing driver: uvcvideo type: USB
  Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.9 compositor: kwin_wayland
    driver: gpu: amdgpu,nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution:
    1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1080
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,radeonsi,swrast
    platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.2.6 renderer: AMD
    Radeon Graphics (radeonsi renoir ACO DRM 3.64 6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64)
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.321 drivers: radv,nvidia,llvmpipe surfaces: N/A
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings wl: wayland-info
    x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA107 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Audio Coprocessor driver: N/A
  Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek Killer E2600 GbE driver: r8169
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: 00:e0:4c:68:00:4c
  Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7921 802.11ax PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [Filogic
    330] driver: mt7921e
  IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: ae:4d:af:90:61:7c
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Lite-On MediaTek Bluetooth MT7921 driver: btusb type: USB
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: 9C:2F:9D:81:42:AE bt-v: 5.3
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 596.18 GiB used: 49.27 GiB (8.3%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN530
    SDBPNPZ-512G-1114 size: 476.94 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC Solid State Disk
    size: 119.24 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 474.35 GiB used: 48.6 GiB (10.2%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
  ID-2: /boot size: 1.9 GiB used: 673.3 MiB (34.6%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 19.3 MiB (3.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 474.35 GiB used: 48.6 GiB (10.2%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 42.9 C mobo: 34.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 34.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 14.97 GiB used: 3.23 GiB (21.5%)
  Processes: 368 Uptime: 24m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.39
Results of running dnf list --installed | grep 'nvidia' 
akmod-nvidia.x86_64                                  3:580.95.05-1.fc43                   rpmfusion-nonfree
kmod-nvidia-6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64.x86_64            3:580.105.08-1.fc43                  @commandline
nvidia-gpu-firmware.noarch                           20251021-1.fc43                      d15e557246b143e68b4d7cf7c8078e9c
nvidia-modprobe.x86_64                               3:580.105.08-1.fc43                  <unknown>
nvidia-settings.x86_64                               3:580.105.08-1.fc43                  <unknown>
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64                           3:580.105.08-1.fc43                  <unknown>
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64                 3:580.105.08-1.fc43                  <unknown>
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64                   3:580.95.05-1.fc43                   rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686                        3:580.105.08-1.fc43                  <unknown>
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64                      3:580.105.08-1.fc43                  <unknown>
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64                     3:580.105.08-1.fc43                  <unknown>
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Hi. I am also currently experiencing this issue, with decreased performance, and I did some research, there is an open issue for this at the nvidia repo, and it has been forwarded to nvidia devs, so the probleme is from the driver itself. In the mean time, we should downgrade to 508.95.05 but it seems that it already got deleted? I might be doing something wrong, if so, correct me.

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Broooooo… :skull:

Thank you for telling about this… not sure how you are supposed to downgrade packages on Fedora, to be honest. :sweat_smile:
I saw there is a downgrade command? I will attempt to use that.

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I had a slightly different issue in that steam worked with the 580.95.05 driver but crashes with the 580.105.03 driver.

Downgrading seems an issue since the rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver repo seems to only contain the latest release.

I was finally able to downgrade to the 580.95.05 release by first removing the kmod-nvidia-6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64 package, then having the rpmfusion-nonfree repo enabled and using this command
sudo dnf downgrade *nvidia* --exclude nvidia-gpu-firmware,kmod-nvidia* --allowerasing
What that did was pull the older driver version from the rpmfusion-nonfree repo and replace the newer one that came from the rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver repo.

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Damn… That sucks… I have a Proton Mailbox, but I doubt they accept those considering they don’t accept GMail ones.

Oh yeah, I forgot to report here: I did try to downgrade, but it solved nothing on my side, for some reason. It seems to be a driver issue anyway and there is a patch available already done by the CachyOS team, as far as I can tell anyway, so I am hoping Nvidia will upstream that patch ASAP and it will fix this issue.

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See my updated post above

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That did the trick for me too! Thank you a lot!

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Just another update.

I just checked and now there is a newer driver at rpmfusion that fixed my problem with steam.
The 580.105.08 driver has replaced the 580.105.03 which caused my steam issue.

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