Hello everyone,
I had recently a very special experience with Fedora and Nvidia. Here’s what happened:
I freshly installed* Fedora 38 complete normal w/o any special stuff. The only thing which I did was using this tutorial to sign the Nvidia drivers and use my system with Secure Boot together. So far, so good. But since the last few weeks *(I reinstalled it several times during the weeks), I have problem with the stability of my system. GNOME with Wayland works so far more or less Here’s a list of what happened so far:
GNOME
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[Wayland + Xorg] with Nouveau / Nvidia drivers installed, I’ve a fake second non-exisiting monitor in my system settings; from what I found it has something to do with “
xrandr
” (because it calls itself like that if I visit the montior color profile options) which I don’t even have installed on my system -
[Xorg] trying to change the screen refresh rate crashs the kernel + gnome-shell completely; the error message of the kernel crash tells me that my kernel is “broken” and gives me a P (Properitary module) W (Taint on Warning) O (Out-of-tree kernel) warning out which refers to all Nvidia modules installed (see inserted screenshot of
abrt
- this was on GNOME and KDE, you’re seeing here the latest one from KDE)
- [Xorg] I also had temporarily the problem that starting a X11 session didn’t worked. The screen went black and I saw the login screen again. It happened at the same time where my Nvidia drivers stopped to load at all - leading to the scenario that the device security tab in
gnome-settings
showed that my kernel was verifiable again. But the issue dissapeared on its own after a restart for some reason.abrt
created also a crash log forxorg-x11-drv-nouveau
.
KDE (I switched yesterday to KDE to see if it helps kinda via a fresh install - I regret it, it was worse)
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After the first restart from the installation I saw for a second
anaconda
again with the button “FINISH INSTALLATION
”. But the screen went black and… nothing happened. I had to force my PC to shut down completely to reboot the system. After I logged in for the first time I found inabrt
several Nouveau (and Kernel maybe - may have deleted them accidentally) crash logs which happened every second (which explains why nothing happened after that. The same thing happened after I used Discover to update my system with the “automatic reboot” option at the bottom. Result: freezing screen, had to force reboot again just to install the updates again. And again: Nouveau and Kernel crash logs again. -
[Xorg] After I installed the Nvidia drivers again I tried to open a X11 session. The Plasma shell stuttered completely and I was able to see in
abrt
how it created one Kernel crash log after another (see screenshot above) with the same “Kernel is broken, PWO” messages like in GNOME (see above). It happened literally every second until it stopped then after several minutes.abrt
was flooded with over 100 Kernel crash logs. -
[Wayland] I believe that Wayland had the first few times also some Kernel crashes. Now it just one Kernel crash after I logged in into my account.
-
[Wayland + Xorg] The problem with the second non-existing monitor (see above) exists also here. I just don’t know if it has also to do with “
xrandr
” or not.
And now I’m sitting here, writing this forum post and have no idea what I should do now. I really love Fedora and wish to continue using it. But I must say that this was the worst experience I had so far with Fedora. And I had already cases where I couldn’t even boot and was just hitted by very bright green screen for example. I appreciate any suggestion I can get. Thanks in advance.
PS: I’ve also a full dmesg
log if needed. I just believe that this post is already long enough with infos.
With kind regards
Graphizs