F42 Gaming Setup with RTX 5060ti

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Hey guys,

I’m completely new to Fedora… I already read some posts here on the forum but haven’t exactly found answers…

As the thread title says I want to make my 5060ti fully functional with Fedora.

I used Debian for a couple of years now and only switched to Fedora because I thought it supports newer kernels out of the box - and therefore is maybe a better choice to build a Linux gaming machine.

Since the GTX 5060ti is a quite new model, nvidia only released a beta driver for linux until now… 575.xx is the actual beta driver version.

My first try was installing F42 and then tried to get the graphics working, after some tweaking the card is recognized but all is very buggy… I used a tutorial to install akmod driver for the 5060ti but this mode uses a 570.xx driver. I used cinnamon on liightdm with wayland initially, but the akmod uses xorg instead… all very confusing!

Desktop looks fine but the problem is with steam games - they are actually lagging very much.

So my question is, does anyone have some tips how to setup Fedora to be able to install and use the official 575.xx beta nvidia driver - maybe use an older Fedora build like 40 or 41?

Any help appreciated to get this going :wink:

cheers

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you can try to install the rawhide beta driver (f43)

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Personally I wouldn’t use wayland with cinnamon, it still has some support missing eg: screen locker and keyboard selection.

Lightdm requires xorg server so the nvidia will match it and install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-xorg-libs

$ rpm -qR xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
(xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-xorg-libs(x86-64) = 3:575.51.02-2.fc43 if xorg-x11-server-Xorg(x86-64))

The f43 packages will install fine on f42

sudo dnf install rpmfusion-nonfree-release-rawhide
sudo dnf --enable-repo=rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide update *\nvidia\*

I been using the beta ever since I packaged it for rpmfusion rawhide

$ inxi -SG
System:
  Host: leigh-pc Kernel: 6.15.0-0.rc5.42.fc43.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.9 Distro: Fedora Linux 42 (Cinnamon)
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA107 [GeForce RTX 3050 6GB] driver: nvidia v: 575.51.02
  Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
    driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting,nouveau dri: swrast
    gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 3840x2160~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,swrast
    platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device

As you using the beta steam channel with proton?

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Hi,

thanks for your replies

I think I already installed the RPM Fusion attempt… but not sure, but installed this akmod mentioned in the linked tutorial…

@leigh123linux this sounds more promising because I definately want to use the official 575.xx Nvidia driver - don’t know if I got you right…

What I got:
I have to somehow get lightdm to use wayland again (which always has been my favorite)… that shouldn’t be so hard.

Maybe I should start from scratch - but first I’ll try to fix this without reinstalling.

what I don’t really get is have you somehow compiled the 575beta to work with F42? That’s what I’m after, because the 570.xx does not fully support all features of the 5060ti… so my thought was that’s why gaming is so laggy, because the card is not fully supported by the driver… there was no problem with desktop enviroment but gaming was really unplayable using steam…

Sorry but I don’t really know - but if I should, please explain this a little further…
:wink: or I search by myself later… but first I’ll try to get wayland running again.

ah, just to mention it, there is a bug since I installed this akmod lightdm isn’t started anymore, only console starts and I have to login and start lightdm myself with systemctl…

I’ll see how far I get… maybe I ask a few questions later on…

thanks to you all and have a nice weekend!

cheers

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Ahh Ok, got you now… ‘proton’ is only available via steam’s beta channel…yes already found and activated…

Finally I re-installed the complete system and activated rpmfusion while installing - I think this fixed a lot of things automatically…

Actually the system is running fine - so thanks a ton for your answers…

cheers